Heather Sommer

Heather Sommer received her BA from Ohio Northern University in 2016 majoring in History with a minor in Public History/Museum Studies. In 2018, she graduated from Miami University with an MA in History. She will pursue a PhD at the University of Minnesota studying early American history, specifically the tensions between royalism and republicanism as seen in U.S. relations with foreign monarchies.

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“The great financier, or British economy for the years 1763, 1764, 1765.” This British cartoon depicts the American colonies as a Native American woman, as juxtaposed to British officials and Britannia (far right), demonstrating the disconnect between the colonies and the metropole even though the colonists thought of themselves as full British subjects.

The Old Informing the New

“Aux amateurs de physique.” Likewise portraying the Tuileries flight, this cartoon mocks the unwashed masses who wished to see the spectacle without a ticket, but the scaling of the garden walls also illustrates how the balloon as a “people-machine” ignited the determination of the poorer, disempowered social strata to overcome restraints imposed on them by the authoritarian regime.

Public Perceptions: Ballooning and Political Culture

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