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

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

Dayton, Tennessee was the center of the world's attention.A biology teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching Ch ...

One hundred years ago, a public school teacher was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution. The Scopes Monkey Trial ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

On this day in 1896, William Jennings Bryan of Lincoln, Nebraska, delivered his famous “Cross of Gold” speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Bryan argued that allowing the free ...

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 July 10, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, in which John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in school, a violation of state law, began in Dayton, Tenn.

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Sitter William Jennings Bryan, 19 Mar 1860 - 26 Jul 1925 Credit Line National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Date 1900 Object number NPG.83.177 Restrictions & Rights CC0 Type Print Medium ...

News about William Jennings Bryan. Commentary and archival information about William Jennings Bryan from The New York Times.

1896: William Jennings Bryan stepped onto the podium at the Democratic National Convention inside the Chicago Coliseum at 63rd Street and Stony Island Avenue, and demonstrated that reformers could ...