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Signs, props and glowing bracelets – the political conventions of 2024 discover a home within the Smithsonian collections

The cheering, clapping and talking is over. Historians from the Smithsonian National Museum of American ...

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From pigs as political candidates to Obama’s groundbreaking speech – Democratic conventions often leave their mark on history

If the Yippies – a bunch of young activists known for his or her political ...

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Until 1968, presidential candidates were chosen by party conventions – a process that was revived by Biden's retreat from racial discrimination.

After Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election campaign and supported Vice President ...

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How Smithsonian Museum curators are mining political conventions to elucidate the current to the longer term and save all the things from hats to buttons and umbrellas to soap

Thousands of Republicans, from presidential candidates to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on ...

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