Democratic Convention Archives

Activism

What Democrats Lose in Ignoring the Uncommitted Movement

The party has learned the wrong lessons from 1968

October 24, 2024 • by Abby Lloyd

In anticipation of the Uncommitted National Movement’s arrival at this summer’s Democratic National Convention, press and political commentators made frequent reference to the anti-war protests turned police riots of the 1968 convention. It had been more than 50 years since internal discord among Democrats had been organized into an electoral ...

What Democrats Lose in Ignoring the Uncommitted Movement

Podcast

The Bright Sunshine of Human Rights

A conversation with journalist and historian James Traub about liberalism and his book True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America

March 12, 2024 • by Claire Potter

An interview with James Traub on his new book, True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America....

Feature

Organized Women at the Democratic Convention

October 25, 2016 • by Jo Freeman

While women faded into the background at the Republican Convention, they were front and center at the Democrats’. Women were everywhere, and not just sitting in the seats. Women were roughly half of the delegates because Democratic Party rules require equal division by sex. The Republicans do not have such a ...

Organized Women at the Democratic Convention

Feature

Class and Culture at the Republican and Democratic Conventions

September 29, 2016 • by Jo Freeman

Walking around the conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia one could see that there have been many changes in class and culture both inside and outside of the parties in the last fifty years. In Cleveland I was able to tour the Q while it was still being turned from a sports ...

Class and Culture at the Republican and Democratic Conventions

Multi Media

Police and Protesters at the Republican and Democratic Conventions

September 20, 2016 • by Jo Freeman

Every four years Congress gives each city hosting a major party convention $50 million dollars to protect the convention and police the protestors. They usually use it to bring in cops from across the country. In Cleveland I saw shoulder patches from the California, Florida, and South Carolina Highway patrols, ...