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Article Title: William Jennings Bryan, Evolution, and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy Full Citation: Ferenc M Szasz, “William Jennings Bryan, Evolution, and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy,” Nebraska History 56 (1975): 259-278. URL of article: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1975WJBModernist.pdf Date: 10/7/2015 Article Summary: Following the Scopes Trial in 1925, William Jennings Bryan was widely considered to be the main leader of the Fundamentalist position. However, the author argues that William Jennings Bryan had little to do with the late 19th and early 20th century origins of Fundamentalism, and that he differed from most fundamentalist leaders in theology, tactics, and his view of the nature of American society. The author further argues that evolution was a peripheral issue among fundamentalists until Bryan made it a central issue in the 1920s. Cataloging Information: Names: Ernest R Sandee, E A Wollam, Dr Eliott, Washington Gladden, Charles Stelzle, A C Dixon, Benjamin Kidd, James He Leuba, W T Manning, J G Machen, Arthur W Stalker, E A Birge, Harry Emerson Fosdick, H F Osborn, E G Conklin, Charles D Wishart, Clarence E Macartney, Clarence Darrow, Joseph Lewis, Charles Smith, A J Brown, T C Horton, J W Porter, William Jennings Bryan Jr, William B Riley, J Frank Norris, James H Larson, W E Biederwolf, John R Straton, W H Smith, L W Levine, Glenn Frank, Austin Peay, John T Scopes, Herbert Asquith, William Allen White, Dudley Field Malone, Curtis Lee Laws Keywords: Anti-Higher Criticism League; Biblical literalism; Moody Bible Institute (Chicago); The Prince of Peace [speech by Bryan]; The Menace of Darwinism [Bryan speech]; The Forum; World’s Christian Fundamentals Association (WCFA); National Federated Evangelistic Committee; Rhea County Courthouse (Dayton, Tennessee); Scopes Trial; American Civil Liberties Union; the “Great Commoner” Photographs / Images: Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan on September 1, 1914, signing peace treaties with representatives of Spain, France, Great Britain, and China; William Jennings Bryan asleep on a train about 1920; Opposing lawyers at the Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan; Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton; Methodist Church in Normal, a suburb of Lincoln, where Bryan went to church