Given the current news cycle and focus on the republican and democratic conventions I thought it may be interesting to look back in time and get a sense of the conventions of our past.
1817 Democratic Republican convention
1830 Journal and debates of the Federal Convention, held at Phila
1830 Democratic National convention
1831 Journal of the National Republican Convention
1832 An address, to the people of Maryland, from their delegates
1832 Journal of the proceedings of the National Republican convention
1839 Proceedings at the Democratic Whig state convention
1844 Proceedings and address of the Democratic state convention
1848 An appeal to the Whig national convention
1849 Address and proceedings of the Democratic state convention
1852 Proceedings of the Democratic national convention
1854 Proceedings of the National Woman’s Rights Convention
1855 Proceedings of the convention of Radical Political Abolition
1856 Official proceedings of the National Democratic Convention
1856 Official proceedings of the Republican convention
1858 Proceedings of the Republican State Convention
1860 Address of Montgomery Blair before the Maryland state Republican Convention
1860 Official proceedings of the Democratic National Convention
1860 Proceedings of the National Republican Convention
1860 Proceedings of the National Democratic convention
1864 Biographical sketch of Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee
1864 Cincinnati Convention, October 18, 1864
1864 Official proceedings of the Democratic National Convention
1868 Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention
1868 Record of the New York Democratic convention
1872 Official Proceedings of the National Democratic Convention
1872 Proceedings of the Liberal Republican Convention
1876 Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention
1876 Proceedings of the Republican national convention
1881 Proceedings of the Republican National Convention
1882 Official Proceedings of the National Democratic Convention
1892 Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention
1892 Proceedings of the tenth Republican national convention
1893 Proceedings of the first three Republican national convention
1896 Official proceedings of the Democratic national convention
1896 Official proceedings of the eleventh Republican National Convention
1896 Parties, problems and leaders of 1896
1897 The Prohibition Movement: Papers and Proceedings
1900 Official proceedings of the twelfth Republican National Convention
1904 National Convention of the Socialist Party held at Chicago
1904 Official proceedings of the thirteenth Republican national convention
1906 The national conventions and platforms of all political parties
1912 A tale of two conventions; being an account of the Republicans
1912 National Democratic Platform : progress in every plank
1920 Official Report of the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Republican Convention
1921 National Convention. Socialist Labor Party. Reports, Resolution
1924 Official report of the proceedings of the Democratic national convention