A Chicago museum portrays the history of American politics through the prism of a simple accessory Collectors say the first buttons in the form we know them today were introduced in 1896 ...

As a young stockbroker in New York City during the 1960s, a chance encounter with a political canvasser changed Julius "Desey" Desenberg's life. The canvasser, working for a mayoral candidate ...

Sponsor Message Bonner County Sportsmen's Assn/Idaho (picture of a trout and a deer) — Not exactly a political button but I didn't have much choice. I Don't Give a Damn — This could just be a ...

Collectors at over 250 tables, display their political memorabilia. The main attraction being the campaign buttons. These have come to be viewed as the essential political item to be collected.

TITUSVILLE -- Collectors of political buttons, badges and ribbons will meet Saturday, May 16 to sell, trade and display memorabilia from the 2008 Obama and McCain campaigns, as well as from ...

If history is any guide, some of those buttons will soon be in Bengston’s massive collection. Bengston is Minnesota’s most prolific collectors of political trinkets. Over five decades ...

The largest convention of political scientists, scheduled for this weekend in Los Angeles, poses a real-world political dilemma for academics who are booked into hotels where workers are on strike.

After all, buttons are a very old form of political paraphernalia. Michael Allen, a historian at the University of Washington Tacoma, says that political buttons are a uniquely American innovation.

A teeny, tiny campaign button is proving size doesn’t matter when it comes to fetching record-high prices for political memorabilia. A one-and-a-quarter-inch button featuring the sepia-toned ...

Fisher now estimates his collection has grown to about 4,000 or 5,000 buttons. He's also the organizer of the Oregon chapter of the American Political Items Collectors, a group for collectors of ...

AUBURN | More than 200 years of American history were on display Saturday at the 41st Annual Political Button Show and Sale at the United Methodist Church in Auburn. The yearly event, hosted by ...