Red, white and bruising: at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, conflicts within the hall were amplified in violence on Chicago’s streets. AP Images Theodore Roosevelt giving a campaign speech.

Much of it was. And the memory has been a kind of curse on the Democratic Party and on the Windy City itself. Prior to 1968, Chicago had easily hosted the most presidential nominating conventions of ...

We’re one year away from Chicago hosting the next Democratic National Convention — 28 years after it was last here and 56 years after the unforgettable 1968 DNC. It’s the 26th time the city has been ...

Vice President Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic presidential nomination with 1,761 votes to 601 for Sen. Eugene McCarthy. Vice President Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic presidential nomination ...

It remains to be seen what impact this summer’s Democratic and Republican national conventions will have on the 2016 presidential election. But when Republicans gather in Cleveland and Democrats ...

Forty years later, the 1968 Democratic National Convention stands as a pivotal moment in American history. “The convention uncovered the polarization of America,” said Lendol Calder, an associate ...