house, but it really and truly that the election of 1896 with preparing william mckinley and william jennings bryan really kind of focused on two great things gold standard. william the silver standard for william jennings bryan and the gold standard prevailed because william mckinley won that election in 1896. but one of the interesting things about that election was the fact that the republican party went after, you know, labor, which was unheard of because, you know that is a democratic today. it's a democratic, you know, campaign trough. and i think william mckinley changed that because and i think that's one of the major reasons why, as mckinley was a congressman, he was also known as a very protectionist. and they placed tariffs on all these coming into the country because mckinley was raised, you know, a very middle class family. and he had a heart for middle class people in the working people. so i think the 1896 election was definitely it resounded with the people. and you kind of saw that election kind of come away from the actual populist candidate, which was william jennings bryan. and

and so william jennings bryan, who had been the democratic nominee for the past for three of the past four presidential elections, soundly defeated each time. but a real hero in the party as a progressive reformer. he throws his support behind woodrow wilson. and when he throws his support behind woodrow wilson, the party gets behind wilson. and on something like that, 53rd ballot. wilson is made the party's nominee. so it's a it's a long and surprising road for wilson. but he gets there because he's aligned with this this new reform energy in the democratic party. why was william jennings bryant still a hero of the party after so many losses as the candidate? and for a party that hadn't won a presidential election but once since 1860 was 1888. the other time the democrats won. until 1912. the reason that william jennings bryan was still so popular was because he wasn't necessarily a political leader. he was a move ment leader. he was someone who could give a speech that would move the masses. he was the face of a populist movement. so the supporter of farmers and the little guy. and

and so william jennings bryan, who had been the democratic nominee for the past for three of the past four presidential elections, soundly defeated each time. but a real hero in the party as a progressive reformer. he throws his support behind woodrow wilson. and when he throws his support behind woodrow wilson, the party gets behind wilson. and on something like that, 53rd ballot. wilson is made the party's nominee. so it's a it's a long and surprising road for wilson. but he gets there because he's aligned with this this new reform energy in the democratic party. why was william jennings bryant still a hero of the party after so many losses as the candidate? and for a party that hadn't won a presidential election but once since 1860 was 1888. the other time the democrats won. until 1912. the reason that william jennings bryan was still so popular was because he wasn't necessarily a political leader. he was a move ment leader. he was someone who could give a speech that would move the masses. he was the face of a populist movement. so the supporter of farmers and the little guy. and

but, in this period, the big surrogates are progressive leaders like william jennings bryan. but, really, the candidates themselves are the stars of the show. >> i want to take our viewers to october 14th of 1912. this is a photo of teddy roosevelt speaking from a car in front of the patrick hotel in milwaukee. minutes later, an assassin tried to kill him. here is more from presidential historian douglas brinkley on that moment. >> he went to give a speech in milwaukee and a crazed anarchist took a shot at him, he was meeting. now, people -- he had such bad eyesight, roosevelt, that he had always carried bird glasses with him in his pocket, and he had this thick script, these papers, and he had this metal like case with his bird, so that he could see the coloration details, and that is what the bullets hit. now, it wounded him terribly, but there is some thinking that if it hadn't gone through that birdwatching glasses, he would have died. but, here, he is bleeding, shock, and "it will take more than that to kill a bull news." you know, he keeps going. much like when ronald r

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brenda calls him two live users, the year was 1925, writing about ubiquitous politicians william jennings bryan criminal lawyer clarence darrow. each of them national celebrities for decades, going into battle over god and science and the classroom and not incidentally what it meant to be an american. her latest book is titled keeping the faith and is about the scopes trial in the sum of 1925 help in small town of dayton, tennessee, and focus on the state law that prohibited teaching of evolution in the schools. hor brenda wind up with her book keeping the faith on this episode of booot+ with our host brian lam booknotes+ is available on the c-span now free mobile app or whatever you get your podcast. >> weekends on c-span2 aren't intellectual feast your every saturday american history tv documents america's stories, and on sundays bktv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. funding for c-span2 comes from these television companies and more including comcast. >> are you thinking this is just a community center? >> comcast is partnering with 1000 community centers great wi-fi ena

he's writing about the ubiquitous politicians william jennings bryan and the criminal lawyer clarencerow. each of them, national celebrities for decades, going into battle over god and science and the classroom and not incidentally over what it meant to be an american. brenda wine apples latest book is titled keeping the faith and it is about the trial in the summer of 1925 held in the small town of dayton, tennessee, and focused on the state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in the schools. >> also with her book, keeping th faith. on this episode of book notes plus with our host, ryan lam. it is available on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> house will be in order. >> c-span celebrates 45 years of covering congress like no other. since 1979, we have been your primary source for capitol hill, providing

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there who also was brought in as one of the representatives of nebraska and they replaced william jennings bryan as the statue in statuary hall. as i discovered today when i went over to the statue to get a proper picture of myself with it because it was too crowded for that when i was there is actually not in the rotunda right now because they can only have 37 statues in the rotunda at the time because they have much weight architecturally for the building so they rotate them in and out and she's really at the visitor center. >> but that statue, the sculpture william alston, what is it about him that unique? >> he's the first african-american artist whose scope one of the soldiers and i think it might even be any work of art represented in the capital . he actually was born and raised in dc and went to a performing arts high school in dc but now teaches at creighton university in omaha . >> in that same event there is a reading from my antonio and this is lauren black reading from my antonio. >> i first heard of antonio on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plane

they replaced william jennings bryan and jay sterling morgan as the statues in statuary hall.s i went over today to visit the statue and get a picture of myself with it, she's not in the rotunda because they can only have 37 statues in the rotunda at a time, because of the weight, they can't support all of them, so she's in the visitor's center. host: the sculpture, what's unique about him? guest: he was the first african-american to sculpt one of the sculptures mand maybe -- and maybe any of the part in the capitol he was from washington, d.c. and but now teaches in omaha. host: at the same event, there was a reading from "my antonia." >> i first heard of antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the midland plain of north america. i was 10 years old, i had lost both my father and mother in a year and my virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparent whs lived in nebraska. i traveled in the care of a mountain boy, jake, one of the hands on my father's ole farm under the blue ridge who was now going west to work for my grandfather. we went all the w

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