The Whigs started holding political conventions in the 1830s − and historians from the Smithsonian who visited the GOP and Democratic conventions this year found the tradition is still very vibrant.
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Hear the former Australian ambassador's observations of 'a very different' Donald Trump at this week's Republican convention, and his prediction of who could replace Biden as the Democratic nominee.
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.’
