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    With the Democratic Party’s Presidential Nominating Convention in Chicago, news commentators are revisiting the story and historic consequences of the 1968 Democratic Convention in that city. However with a quick search of the Library of Congress we can see Chicago has been the selected site in for quite a few Republican and Democratic Presidential Nominating Conventions.

    This album features a few primary source images of Presidential Nominating Conventions in Chicago, along with some activities that students can participate in as they take a look at Conventions.

    First, give your students some background on political nominating conventions and then challenge them to question, research and share what they discover about those as they focus on a primary source.

    You might use a few images that you find in the Library of Congress to spark some of that research and discovery process.  Then as you discuss the current Chicago Convention, discuss what is different and what has parallels to the Chicago Convention of this year.

    In this album are a few ideas I grabbed by using the search term Chicago Convention.  Please add additional images and your ideas to this album  Presidential Nominating Conventions    Political Science    Government    Republican    Demoncrat    Chicago  

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    16 to 1 ... the speech that won the nomination ... at the National Democtratic Convention at Chicago, 1896
    Convention number / Frank A. Nankivell.
    Republican [National] Convention, [Chicago, Illinois,] 1920.
    [Illinois delegates at the Democratic National Convention of 1968, react to Senator Ribicoff's nominating speech in which he criticized the tactics of the Chicago police against anti-Vietnam war protesters]
    [Vice President Richard M. Nixon, his wife Pat Nixon and children Tricia and Julie, riding in an open automobile as they arrive at the Republican National Convention, Chicago, Illinois] / WKL.
    Democratic National Convention, July 1952, Chicago [Swing to Ewing acrobat act]
    Roosevelt speaking in convention hall, Chicago
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    Here is some additional background information on Chicago Conventions.

    Another resource with lots of links to Library primary sources - Primary Source Spotlight: National Party Conventions.

      Margaret Lincoln  and   Julie Schaul  - you always add a wealth of information that can be further explored to a variety of posts!  Thanks for adding these links for us all to use as we teach the political process.

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