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Vaughn Scribner

Vaughn Scribner
Vaughn Scribner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas. Dr. Scribner’s research investigates early American history in a global context, specifically striving to understand how early modern Britons sought to define (and redefine) their positions in the empire. He is the author of Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society.


Why Did Renaissance Europeans See Merpeople Everywhere?

Vaughn Scribner on Made-Up Monsters in the
Age of Imperial Conquest
September 28, 2020  By Vaughn Scribner
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