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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He ran his campaign on the idea that his opponent William Jennings Bryan, who had twice lost already, was not a real opponent. Challenges: William Howard Taft stumbled dramatically on two important ...

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." ...