Web version of
"The Cheese and the Words: 
Popular Political Culture and Participatory Democracy in the Early American Republic"
by Jeffrey L. Pasley

A paper given at the 7th Annual Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, 
Glasgow, Scotland, 12 July 2001. Published in a different version as a chapter in Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher, eds., Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) .

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COMMEMORATING THE CHEESE

A commercial brand in the 1870s:

A current children's book:

Views of the 1940 "cheese press" monument in Cheshire 
 (click photos to see larger images):

Elder John Leland portrait and inscription from the monument
 (click picture for a readable, but adults-only, close-up):

NAMING THE CHEESE:
The "Mammoth" Craze of 1801-1802

Charles Willson Peale, "Disinterment of the Mastodon"

Diagram of the Peales' overly mammoth reconstruction of the Mammoth (click picture for larger version)

Ticket to the museum
 -- seeing the "Mammoth Room" would have cost you another 50 cents

Advertisement for the Mammoth exhibit (click picture for larger, readable version)

CHESHIRE AREA POLITICS

 
Phinehas Allen & his newspaper

Cheshire 4th of July celebration, 1802,
 as reported in the Sun

Cheese era voter turnouts
Click chart for larger version

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