Debates are moments in time, but even years later, key items can evoke their history and reinforce their importance in American democracy.
September 09, 2024
The items people wear, buy and wave at the convention are key pieces of American history.
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Curators from the Smithsonian will be at the GOP convention collecting items from buttons to banners. Their goal: to add objects to the museum’s collection that will ‘make sense of our moment.’
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Tight security may be the reason that the GOP Convention isn’t filled with the homemade, and often wacky, stuff that’s usually found by Smithsonian political ephemera curators at the event.
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