Establish, Insure, Provide, Promote: Election 2024

With the upcoming US presidential election, the Tang Teaching Museum presents an exhibition and gathering space for talks, panels, concerts, voter registration, debates, town meetings, class sessions, club events, and more.

Establish, Insure, Provide, Promote: Election 2024 is anchored by a large stage, artwork from the Tang collection, and a series of large display boards that will be updated throughout the semester, serving as educational hubs for contemporary issues, news, and updates.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Tang presents Ernest and Ruth, a sculpture in the shape of a classic comic-book speech bubble on the Tang lawn. It is a bench for two and an invitation to sit, to converse, to share, and to listen.

Public Events

Monday, September 9, 5 pm
Constitution Day Lecture with Susan McWilliams Barndt

Wednesday, September 18, 6 pm
Environmental Studies and Sciences Keynote Lecture with Maggie Thomas

Friday, September 27–Sunday, September 29
Are We All Fundamentalists?: A Salmagundi 60th Anniversary Conference

Tuesday, October 1, 6 pm
Dunkerley Dialogue with Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman & Heather Hurst and A.J. Schneller

Election Protection

The Election Protection State Map is an interactive map providing state-by-state election guidelines, deadlines, registration details, and more.

Vote America

Vote America’s “Everything You Need to Vote” list is a national resource with direct links to register to vote, check your registration status, request absentee and mail-in ballots, and more.

Sample Ballots

The US Government provides a tool to look up sample ballots via each state’s Board of Elections website. Use a sample ballot to find out what’s on the ballot in your community, and familiarize yourself with all the candidates and issues in your local election through voter guides. Find the sample ballot for Saratoga County at this link after September 20.

Books for Adults

Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, Picador, 2016

Erin Geiger Smith, Thank you for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth about Voting in America, HarperCollins, 2020

Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State, Cornell University Press, 2017

Martha S. Jones, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, Hachette, 2020

David Litt, Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think, HarperCollins, 2020

Susan Ware, Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019

Books for Younger Readers

Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote (The Questioneers #4), Harry N. Abrams, 2020

Veronica Chambers, et al., Finish the Fight!: the Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote, Versify, 2020

Kate Farrell and Caitlin Kuhwald, V is for Voting, Henry Holt and Company Publishers, 2024

Aura Lewis and Evan Sargent, We the People: The United States Constitution Explored and Explained, Wide Eyed Editions, 2020

Margaret McNamara and Micah Player, Vote for our Future!, Penguin Random House, 2020

Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans, Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Anne Schwartz Books, 2015