University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council --Online Archive National Collegiate Honors Council Spring 2002 Design and Deception at Colonial Williamsburg Anders Greenspan Long Island University - C W Post Campus,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcjournal Part of the Higher Education Administration Commons Greenspan, Anders, "Design and Deception at Colonial Williamsburg" (2002). Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council --Online Archive. 83. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcjournal/83 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the National Collegiate Honors Council at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council --Online Archive by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Design and Deception at Colonial Williamsburg ANDERS GREENSPAN LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY - C. W. POST CAMPUS he study of Colonial Williamsburg,1 which celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in TDecember 2001, is a useful means of approaching the discussion of the ways interior decoration and garden design can be used as a means to promote political ideology. While the political role of these two areas of creative expression may not be immediately appar- ent in a visit to Colonial Williamsburg, they played an instrumental role in the restoration of the eighteenth-century town. They were also part of the original plan of the restora- tion’s founders to promote in twentieth-century Americans a strong national pride and love of country. At the same time, the restoration’s founders sought to downplay the importance of the town’s less prominent residents, including white laborers and slaves.