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Barnes, James A. (1947). "Myths of the Bryan Campaign". Mississippi Valley Historical Review. Organization of American Historians. 34 (3): 367–404. doi:10.2307/1898096. JSTOR1898096. on 1896
Bensel, Richard Franklin. Passion and Preferences: William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic Convention (2008)
Cherny, Robert W. (1996). "William Jennings Bryan and the Historians". Nebraska History. 77 (3–4): 184–193. ISSN0028-1859. Analysis of the historiography.
Edwards, Mark (2000). "Rethinking the Failure of Fundamentalist Political Antievolutionism after 1925". Fides et Historia. 32 (2): 89–106. ISSN0884-5379. PMID17120377. Argues that fundamentalists thought they had won Scopes trial but death of Bryan shook their confidence.
Hohenstein, Kurt (2000). "William Jennings Bryan and the Income Tax: Economic Statism and Judicial Usurpation in the Election of 1896". Journal of Law & Politics. 16 (1): 163–192. ISSN0749-2227.
Jeansonne, Glen (1988). "Goldbugs, Silverites, and Satirists: Caricature and Humor in the Presidential Election of 1896". Journal of American Culture. 11 (2): 1–8. doi:10.1111/j.1542-734X.1988.1102_1.x. ISSN0191-1813.
Longfield, Bradley J. (2000). "For Church and Country: the Fundamentalist-modernist Conflict in the Presbyterian Church". Journal of Presbyterian History. 78 (1): 34–50. ISSN0022-3883. Puts Scopes in larger religious context.
Mahan, Russell L. (2003). "William Jennings Bryan and the Presidential Campaign of 1896". White House Studies. 3 (2): 215–227. ISSN1535-4768.
Murphy, Troy A. (2002). "William Jennings Bryan: Boy Orator, Broken Man, and the 'Evolution' of America's Public Philosophy". Great Plains Quarterly. 22 (2): 83–98. ISSN0275-7664.
Smith, Willard H. (1966). "William Jennings Bryan and the Social Gospel". Journal of American History. Organization of American Historians. 53 (1): 41–60. doi:10.2307/1893929. JSTOR1893929.
Taylor, Jeff (2006). Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN0-8262-1659-5. On Bryan's place in Democratic Party history and ideology.
Wood, L. Maren (2002). "The Monkey Trial Myth: Popular Culture Representations of the Scopes Trial". Canadian Review of American Studies. 32 (2): 147–164. doi:10.3138/CRAS-s032-02-01. ISSN0007-7720.