Chicago's Clarence Darrow battled the forces of religion that would dictate public education. A century later, the fight ...

The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

1896: William Jennings Bryan stepped onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention inside the Chicago Coliseum at ...

Tapping Trump to run again in 2024 may seem sensible, but Trump’s downward political trajectory looks eerily like William Jennings Bryan’s.

William Jennings Bryan had won the case, but history would not look kindly on his last crusade. The Scopes trial would cast a long shadow over his remarkable career.

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

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.

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law ...

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 ...

William Jennings Bryan delivers a campaign speech, circa 1910. Bryan put himself on the map as one of America's best orators with his "Cross of Gold" speech in 1896.

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Bryan lost to William McKinley then ran for president and lost twice more, in 1900 to McKinley again and in 1908 to Theodore Roosevelt's candidate, William H. Taft.