Submitted by: Vaughn Scribner, vscribner@uca.edu on 09/02/2025
Vaughn Scribner’s book, “Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America (UNC Press, 2024)” has recently garnered national praise. It won the Society of the Cincinnati Prize, a major award given annually for an outstanding book that advances our understanding of the American Revolution and its legacy. Other recipients of the award include three Pulitzer Prize winners, two Bancroft prize winners, and one Guggenheim Fellow. Scribner will receive the award at a ceremony in D.C. at the Society’s headquarters on October 6.
“Under Alien Skies” was also a finalist (one of three) for the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, which “recognizes the best book on American military history in English distinguished by its scholarship, its contribution to the literature, and its appeal to the broadest possible general reading public.” The winner will be announced in early October, with a ceremony for the winner and finalists to be held in New York City at the Yale Club on December 2.
https://www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/society-of-the-cincinnati-prize/
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/about/finalists-twelfth-annual-military-history-prize