Before Woodrow Wilson became the standard bearer for the Democratic Party, that honor belonged to William Jennings Bryan, known both as "the Great Commoner" and the "Boy Orator of the Platte." Bryan's ...

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A specter was haunting Columbia University on Friday – the specter of William Jennings Bryan. A daylong conference titled “Religion and Liberalism,” held at Columbia’s Casa Italiana and sponsored by ...

The next morning, The Chattanooga Daily Times headline, "City is Shocked over Passing of The Commoner," acknowledged that word of his death had "spread like wildfire." The newsroom first learned of ...

Michael Kazin explains why American politics needs another William Jennings Bryan. • Bryan was the infamous three-time loser for President. • Bryan was the “Great Commoner,” a pious populist who spoke ...

Kazin (Barons of Labor) attempts a revisionist portrait of Bryan (1860–1925), whom scholars have long dismissed as a rabid white supremacist, bullying fundamentalist and braying pacifist/isolationist.

Born generations apart in vastly different worldly circumstances, Donald J. Trump and William Jennings Bryan would appear to have little in common beyond their middle initial. Yet comparisons between ...