Symbols of the American Revolution

Take a trip in time at your library! During the American Revolution, artists used visual metaphors of womanhood, indigeneity, and Greco-Roman mythology for both pro-independence and pro-loyalist cartoons. 

This talk is presented by Sydney Livingston. She is the Special Collections Assistant Manager for the St. Augustine Historical Society. She graduated from Florida State University with her master’s degree in history in 2024. Her thesis, entitled “Constructing Women and Nation,” focused on how artists portrayed America as a woman during the Revolutionary War. Her research areas of interest include Native American history, women, and visual culture during the 18th and 19th centuries.