Author:William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan
(1860–1925)

William Jennings Bryan

Works

Books

• The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896 (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1896) (transcription project) (transcription project)
• The World's Famous Orations (1906)

Speeches and addresses

• Graduating Oration, Illinois College, June, 1881.
• Valedictory, Illinois College, June, 1881.
• Presentation of "Gray's Elegy", at the close of the final debate for the First Congressional district, 1890.
• The Jury System, February, 1890.
• First Speech Against Unconditional Repeal, before the U.S. House of Representatives, February 9, 1893.
• Principal Speech Against Unconditional Repeal, before the U.S. House of Representatives, August 16, 1893.
• Third Speech Against Unconditional Repeal, before the U.S. House of Representatives, November 1, 1893.
• Final Protest Against Unconditional Repeal, before the U.S. House of Representatives, November 1, 1893.
• Memorial Day Address, Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D.C., May 30, 1894.
• "Cross of Gold" speech concluding debate on the Chicago Platform, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 9, 1896.
• "The Law and the Gospel" toast at a banquet held by the St. Paul Methodist Church of Lincoln.
• Counting a Quorum, presented in a session of the Fifth-Third Congress.
• "The Ideal Republic", 1922. (audio of speech on Commons}
• Scopes Monkey Trial Summation (undelivered), Dayton Tennessee, 1925.

Articles about William Jennings Bryan

• "Life of William Jennings Bryan" (1896)
• "Bryan, William Jennings," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)