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The 2024 Political Conventions Find a Home in the Smithsonian Collections

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 collect materials – from balloons to banners to blinking wristbands – at each of them.

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Smithsonian Curator's Encounters at the Democratic National Convention

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What Smithsonian Curators Will Be Doing at the Democratic National Convention