DNC 2024: Harris memes-turned-ephemera head to the Smithsonian

At the 2024 Democratic National Convention, alongside politicians and delegates from across the country are political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, who are collecting what museum curators call “ephemera”—items that people wear, carry, hand out, display, or otherwise use during the convention. The Conversation U.S. politics editor Jeff Inglis spoke with Claire Jerry and Lisa Kathleen Graddy about what they have seen so far and how...