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.
Naomi Schalit, The Conversation; Interviews with Lisa Kathleen Graddy, Claire Jerry and Jon Grinspan
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