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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We don’t want to reenact ’68 in Chicago, right?” In 1968, about 9,000 to 10,000 protesters against the Vietnam War famously filled the streets of Chicago during the Democratic National ...

The events in and around the 1968 DNC in Chicago have endured as a landmark moment of political chaos and social change for America. Inside the convention hall, Democrats struggled mightily to ...

The difference will be crucial. Almost exactly 56 years ago, I was at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, along with tens of thousands of other angry protesters against the war in ...