An ambitious high-tech search in Lake Superior so far has turned up no sign of a plane that crashed in 1968, killing three people who were on a scientific research trip. An autonomous vessel was ...

Right now, presidential candidates are crisscrossing the country, begging primary voters for their support. So it's easy to forget that not too long ago, these voters had no say in who their party ...

"Oftentimes, it is forgotten that there was a Democratic Convention between 1968 and now," Police Superintendent Larry Snelling told reporters last week. "It was a success." He was speaking of ...

The Nation warned readers early on that the 1968 convention would be a debacle. Ad Policy Protesters clash with the National Guard outside the Democratic National Convention on August 28 ...

As Democrats gather in Chicago for their national convention, the year 1968 keeps coming to mind. While the parallels are clear, the differences may be even more important. The DNC was also held ...

When Democrats met that year, the violence that erupted between protesters and the police shook the nation. Here are memories of some of the people who lived it. A demonstrator at the Democratic ...

The notorious and consequential 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago occurred when divisions over the Vietnam War sparked major protests in the city. Judy Woodruff traveled to the city for her ...

Jon Grinspan is curator of political history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the author of “Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force that Elected Lincoln and Spurred the ...

To subscribe to the Style Memo newsletter, click here. End of carousel For months leading up to this convention, “Chicago 1968” has been both a fear and a buzzword, and there are undeniable ...

They’d summoned memories of the anti–Vietnam War protests at the Democrats’ Chicago convention in 1968, when Mayor Richard Daley’s cops wielded billy clubs and thumped skulls, leaving an ...

Now that this past week’s jubilant 2024 Democratic National Convention has ended, it’s a sign of success that the convention — not Chicago itself, as in 1968 — was the story that dominated ...

As Democrats gather in Chicago for the 2024 Democratic National Convention, memories of the 1968 convention are hard to ignore. The parallels between then and now are striking, but key differences ...