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Historians diving for balloons and hoping for hot dish: What Smithsonian curators will be doing at the Democratic National Convention

  • Written by Claire Jerry, Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
imageCurators from the Smithsonian were at the GOP convention in July to bring back items for the museum, including balloons.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Three political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History are heading to Chicago and the 2024 Democratic National Convention soon to collect stuff – or as the...

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