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Vaughn Scribner Wins the 2025 Society of the Cincinnati Prize

The 2025 Society of the Cincinnati Prize has been awarded to Vaughn Scribner, Ph.D., associate professor of British American history at the University of Central Arkansas, for his book Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America, published in 2024 by the University of North Carolina Press. This important new book explores how foreign soldiers’ perceptions of the American environment during the Revolution merged with harsh wartime realities to elicit considerable physical, mental and emotional anguish for the British and German troops who fought in America.

 

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Events

Upcoming Author's Talk - Fighting for Philadelphia: Forts Mercer and Mifflin, the Battle of Whitemarsh, and the Road to Valley Forge

Join us on Wednesday, August 13 at 6:30 p.m., for an author’s talk featuring historian Michael C. Harris discussing his new book that highlights the 1777 Philadelphia Campaign between the Battle of Germantown and the Continental Army’s arrival at Valley Forge.

Exhibitions

Revolutionary Beginnings

Revolutionary Beginnings kicks off our commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War with an examination of three critical and underappreciated battles—at Bunker Hill, Quebec and Sullivan’s Island—that demonstrate how widespread the rebellion was prior to the Declaration of Independence.

New Online

Historiscope Toy Interactive

A mid-nineteenth century educational toy made by Milton Bradley & Co. and preserved in our collections displays twelve scenes of the Revolution considered to be the most important events for children to know about the founding of their country. Explore the Historiscope through a new digital interactive experience.