About halfway through “How Sweet It Is!,” the action halts abruptly and we’re treated to a little poem of slow-motion photography and groovy songs, while the sun reflects cunningly in the camera eye ...

Former Detroit Tigers All-Star and starting third baseman for the 1968 World Series winning team Don Wert has died at the age of 86. The Tigers announced his passing on social media late Monday ...

This 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T is one of those classics. Found in Missouri by YouTube's "A Mostly Mopar Family," this golden-era Coronet spent decades off the road. It also lost quite a few ...

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 ...

Everrati’s all-electric 1968 Mercedes-Benz 230 SL “Pagoda” restomod. Matt Vosper, courtesy of Everrati Automotive Ltd. In the mid-1960s, a new SL cost around twice the price of a Jaguar XKE ...

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 ...

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling gives a pep talk to his officers after a protest that saw dozens detained on the second day of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. Tyler Pasciak ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

It’s a return to the city for Democrats, who hosted an infamous convention there in 1968 that descended into riots in the street and chaos on the convention floor. That year, Americans ...

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 ...

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 ...