LIU Exhibition Brings Presidential Campaign Artifacts to Long Island
BROOKVILLE, N.Y. – November 05, 2026 -- Visitors to Long Island University's Post campus can now see campaign buttons, banners, paper dresses and parade torches from American political history in "The Presidency & Promise of America: A More Perfect Union," which opened October 28.
The exhibition is presented with the Museum of Democracy and drawn from its Wright Family Collection of more than one million political and historical objects. It opened as the nation marks the 250th anniversary of American independence.
The Wright Family Collection spans Washington to Trump
Amassed over four decades, the collection documents presidential campaigns from George Washington through Donald Trump. It also includes ephemera from the civil rights, women's rights, political reform and social justice movements.