Dr. Vaughn Scribner Under Alien Skies

About the author:

Vaughn Scribner is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of Merpeople: A Human History and Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society. He lives in Conway with his wife and dog.

About the book:

The Revolutionary War is often celebrated as marking the birth of American republicanism, liberty, and representative democracy. Yet for the tens of thousands of British and Hessian troops sent 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to wage war under alien skies, such a progressive picture, as Vaughn Scribner reveals, could not have been farther from the truth. In Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America, he illustrates how foreign soldiers’ negative perceptions of the American environment merged with harsh wartime realities to elicit considerable physical, mental, and emotional anguish.

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