Joe Biden’s money giveaways mirrored that of his idol, William Jennings Bryan, the Democrat who formulated the “easy money” policy of the unlimited coinage of silver coins. Ironically Mr ...

Their graves were mostly bare the day I visited — a fitting reminder of how the DFL Party has also neglected its traditional ...

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...

The Scopes Trial was a pivotal moment that highlighted the tension between religious fundamentalism and scientific fact in 1925 in Tennessee.

Disgusted at the party’s embrace of Bryanism, traditional Democrats broke off, formed the new National Democratic Party, and ...

During Bush’s first term, Rove seemed to have a good chance of achieving his goal. The president’s resolute response to the ...

The millions of words written about the “Trial of the Century” (there have been several given that title) law reviews, documentaries, Broadway plays, and movies (“Inherit the Wind”) never seems to end ...

The last time the United States expanded its territory—gaining the Northern Marianas and some other Pacific islands—President ...

Though I am familiar with the Scopes trial, I was pleased to read “A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes trial, the original fight ...

Trump has shown an affinity with many of the little guys — what he called in 2017 "the forgotten men and women." But he also ...

The trial might have attracted little attention outside the world of constitutional law were it not for the two famous lawyers who volunteered to help with the case: William Jennings Bryan for the ...

One is that the Democratic nominee, William Jennings Bryan, adopted important parts of the Populist platform. The other is that the Populists were terrified that, if they didn’t line up behind ...