DENVER—The most valuable campaign button that will emerge this political season may not even carry pictures of Barack Obama or John McCain. It turns out the key to making political campaign ...

Q: At one time, I was very interested in astronomy and sundials. I acquired a book called “Mechanick Dialling; or the New Art of Shadows” by Charles Leadbetter and published ...

"This year I have sold probably two-to-one Trump buttons. But I go back to most of that's probably because of his star ability," said Foster. Mason St. Clair is a graduate student at Kent State ...

The first item on the “Make America Great Again” agenda of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was to craft a replacement logo to ...

Have you taken notice to the images on the campaign buttons supporting the two presidential candidates? They say more than you might think. Let’s look passed the prominent bold-lettered names… ...

John Newell occasionally wears his politics on his lapel. Newell, a former member of the Ashland Town Council and a career state government employee, collects campaign buttons — and has, since ...

This Sunday, a rare Abraham Lincoln campaign button is set to hit the block at Boston’s Skinner Auction House. Estimated between $4,000 and $6,000, ...

Before anyone thought of the Internet, before people did their messaging in 140 characters or less, politics had its own form of social media - campaign buttons.

This week’s Historical Treasure is a Jesse Jackson 1988 presidential campaign button and measures 2.25 inches. The button is in black and white and contains a picture of a smiling Jackson.

The La Crosse County Historical Society has thousands of buttons — literally thousands. Some of them are from Oktoberfest, others are from local businesses or events, and even more are ...