News

The 2025 Society of the Cincinnati Prize Awarded to Vaughn Scribner

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. Join us on October 8 for the presentation of the award to Professor Scribner, who will discuss his book focusing on British and German soldiers’ perceptions of and experiences in the American environment.

 

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Events

Upcoming Author's Talk - Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence

Join us on Thursday, September 11 at 6:30 p.m., for an author’s talk featuring award-winning historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy discussing his new book that looks beyond the familiar borders of the Revolution by exploring British colonies that did not rebel to provide a broader history that transcends what we think we know about the Revolution.

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.