William Jennings Bryan was a transformational leader who has been underappreciated by historians and political strategists. His life and career can also help frame our current political moment.

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.

Bloomington was mourning the death of three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, who was said to have formed a ...

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.

What You Should Know About Darwin 6 minute read William Jennings Bryan, center, arrives at Dayton, Tenn., in 1925.AP By History News Network November 23, 2014 12:00 PM EST History News Network ...

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.

On Saturday, San Diego’s New Fortune Theatre re-created this cultural happening at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Point ...