Aside from the Scopes trial, three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan is best known for delivering his “Cross ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 8, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic ...

Thousands pack the second Chicago Coliseum for the 1896 DNC. Construction on the arena concluded just months before William Jennings Bryan accepted the presidential nomination. Credit: Library of ...

After years of deficit spending, economic turmoil, and occupation wars abroad, which have all hollowed and dispirited the nation, we are stumbling into the most important presidential election ...