Smithsonian curators collect campaign material like these tall state standards used at the 2016 GOP convention. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Lisa Kathleen Graddy: We try to document, through ...

As the Democratic National Convention made history with Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the first Black and South Asian woman to accept the Democratic nomination for president, the most viral ...

The cheering, clapping and speechifying are over. Historians from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History have returned after their trips to the 2024 political party conventions to ...

The Wisconsin Historical Society has amassed a collection of political artifacts that features campaign buttons, signs and some unique items from as early as the 19th century. Today, the Society is ...

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Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to accept her party’s nomination Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention inside the United Center. The tradition of a nominee appearing in person ...

As Republicans and Democrats caucused in Iowa and voted in the primary in New Hampshire, two of our Division of Political History staff members visited presidential campaign headquarters and ...

I attended my first national convention with my father at age 11, in 1964. In 1972, at age 19, I was elected as an Illinois delegate to the Democratic National Convention and then again four years ...

With both political conventions completed, the race for the White House resumes. As in the past, Nielsen collectively measured the audiences of both conventions from ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, Scripps ...

The presidential campaigns are investing in social media to influence voters. As the Democratic National Convention made history with Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the first Black and South ...