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Smithsonian curators collect campaign material like these tall state standards used at the 2016 GOP convention. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Lisa Kathleen Graddy: We try to document, through ...

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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.