“He could light up any room that he walked into,” said William Jennings' mom Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously ...

William Jennings Bryan stepped off the train at Dayton in July of 1925, ready to fight for a "righteous cause." For thirty years the Great Commoner had been a progressive force in the Democratic ...

Yet they had radically different goals. As politician and religious leader, William Jennings Bryan played a prominent role in both movements. The social gospel grew out of the abuses of industrialism.