Naomi Schalit

Aug 29, 2024 | smithsonianmag.com | Naomi Schalit |Claire Jerry |Jon Grinspan

For the last in a series of interviews with the political history curators, The Conversation’s senior politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with Claire Jerry, Jon Grinspan and Lisa Kathleen Graddy to learn about their haul from the recent Democratic convention – and what observations they’d made, as historians, at both parties’ events. Schalit: What have you been thinking about since you left the Democratic convention? Graddy: I’m always fascinated by props that people use.

Aug 28, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Naomi Schalit

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Aug 28, 2024 | usnews.com | Naomi Schalit

The cheering, clapping and speechifying from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee are finally done, but back in Washington, D.C., historians at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History are keeping the party alive.

Aug 27, 2024 | maryvilleforum.com | Naomi Schalit

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too.

Aug 15, 2024 | smithsonianmag.com | Naomi Schalit |Claire Jerry |Jon Grinspan

Conversation politics editor Naomi Schalit spoke with Claire Jerry, Jon Grinspan and Lisa Kathleen Graddy about what curators got at the Republican National Convention in July and what they hope to snare in Chicago.