At the 1896 Democratic Nationl Convention in Chicago, William Jennings Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party. He was an unlikely presidential candidate, but his "Cross of Gold" speech won ...

The United States Postal Service recently issued a stamp to honor William Jennings Bryan. The $2 value was a late addition to the Great Americans series and was released with little advance notice.

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 ...

On July 26, 1925, about five days after the famous Scopes Monkey trial, the famed orator and political William Jennings Bryan died after a lunchtime meal. Bryan had technically won the trial that ...

July 29, 2009 William Jennings Bryan Clarence Darrow may have embarrassed him at the Scopes trial, but William Jennings Bryan will long be remembered as one of the country’s greatest progressive ...

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.

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 ...

In 1930, in memory of William Jennings Bryan, a fundamentalist college began classes in Dayton, Tennessee. Bryan College now accepts students from all over the world.

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 ...