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 ...

It reached its electoral pinnacle in 1896 with the nomination of William Jennings Bryan — dubbed the “Great Commoner” — as the Democratic Party’s nominee. The populists’ mission was to ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Fairview is the former home of William Jennings Bryan, a larger-than-life political figure who called Nebraska home, and who ran for president three times. We visited with ...

In the summer of 1925, when William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow clashed over the teaching of evolution in Dayton, Tennessee, the Scopes trial was depicted in newspapers across the country ...

William Jennings Bryan, well known politician and anti-evolutionist will come to the University on May 15 to speak on "Evolution." Mr. Bryan, whose talk will be given in the New Lecture Hall under ...

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." ...