History and deception: Kenseth Armstead’s Surrender Yorktown 1781

Kenseth Armstead and Steven Zucker discuss Kenseth’s Surrender Yorktown 1781 (2013) at the Newark Museum

How can we begin to correct the lies of history? Artist Kenseth Armstead suggests a poetic solution.

 

Additional resources

Kenseth Armstead’s artist website

The American Revolution: A World War, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution


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Cite this page as: Kenseth Armstead and Dr. Steven Zucker, "History and deception: Kenseth Armstead’s Surrender Yorktown 1781," in Smarthistory, September 4, 2019, accessed April 27, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/armstead-yorktown/.