William Jennings Bryan was a transformational leader who has been underappreciated by historians and political strategists. His life and career can also help frame our current political moment.

William Jennings Bryan stepped off the train at Dayton in July of 1925, ready to fight for a "righteous cause." For thirty years the Great Commoner had been a progressive force in the Democratic ...

Bloomington was mourning the death of three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, who was said to have formed a ...

Over a hundred years ago, during The Gilded Age, Democrat William Jennings Bryan stirred real emotion as well. Bryan scared the establishment of the day – far more than Trump is now.

William Jennings Bryan delivers a campaign speech, circa 1910. Bryan put himself on the map as one of America's best orators with his "Cross of Gold" speech in 1896.

Campolo's critique that hard-line Darwinism exposes the poor and weak to exploitation echoes another dome-headed liberal evangelical, William Jennings Bryan.

In 1900, William Jennings Bryan brought his rhetorical skills to what is today Yakima as part of the groundwork for his 1900 presidential campaign against incumbent Republican William McKinley.

Scottsdale – William Jennings Bryan of Scottsdale AZ left us on June 24, 2021 after a long fight with brain cancer. His gift of gab, generosity, and love of telling stories will be fondly ...

What You Should Know About Darwin 6 minute read William Jennings Bryan, center, arrives at Dayton, Tenn., in 1925.AP By History News Network November 23, 2014 12:00 PM EST History News Network ...

The late Jennings Randolph, one of Bryan's namesakes, became a five-term U.S. senator from West Virginia (1958 85) and achieved an enormous legislative record, including spearheading the 26th ...

Kazin’s mission in A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan is to establish that the Great Commoner was the same man with the same principles, and much the same following, during and ...

He was only 36. Bryan lost to William McKinley then ran for president and lost twice more, in 1900 to McKinley again and in 1908 to Theodore Roosevelt's candidate, William H. Taft.