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Ghost of William Jennings Bryan haunts Trump's next run for the White House Comparisons between the two began cropping up early in 2016, right about the time former President Trump's candidacy was ...
Opinion American populists used to run against tariffs. It could happen again. William Jennings Bryan stoked a worker revolt against protectionism that led to the first income tax.
On Oct. 24, 1896, William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic Party nominee for President, spoke to what the Quincy Weekly Whig called a “vast multitude” in appearances at Courthouse Square, Washington ...
Bryan, William Jennings McKinley, William Description Many factors, including changes in technology and the emotionally charged issues of the day, led to an explosion of campaign items in the 1896 ...
Bryan Point, seen rising above I.B. Perrine's Blue Lakes Ranch, was named for three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. Bryan stacked three towering rock monuments on the point in ...
Take your pick: • William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) was the blustering bigot of the 1925 Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee. • Bryan was the stalwart defender of Christian truth ...
In “Keeping the Faith,” Brenda Wineapple finds an ongoing battle over the soul of America in a century-old trial. Clarence Darrow, left, and William Jennings Bryan at the Dayton, Tenn ...
Bryan was a lawyer and Trump a businessman, but both had found "second careers" in high-profile roles in the media. For Bryan, it was the editor's title at the Omaha World-Herald when he was 34 ...
Born generations apart in vastly different worldly circumstances, Donald J. Trump and William Jennings Bryan would appear to have little in common beyond their middle initial. Yet comparisons ...
Born generations apart in vastly different worldly circumstances, Donald J. Trump and William Jennings Bryan would appear to have little in common beyond their middle initial. Yet comparisons ...
Bryan was a lawyer and Trump a businessman, but both had found "second careers" in high-profile roles in the media. For Bryan, it was the editor's title at the Omaha World-Herald when he was 34 ...