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 ...

I’ve written previously for Poynter about my fondness for covering the quadrennial Democratic and Republican conventions. Recently, I realized that some of my souvenirs from those conventions ...

Will there be a virtual balloon-drop? That is about the only intrigue left when it comes to what will happen at this year’s national political conventions. Even more so than usual, the chance for high ...

Scrolling through social media or watching on TV, you can't miss the pageantry accompanying national political conventions. The bright lights of news media; the red, white and blue décor; the ...

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 ...

Convention speeches can launch newcomers into the national spotlight and provide space for political pioneers to break barriers. As the 2020 Democratic and Republican National Conventions are underway ...

Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention.