The Danvers Historical Society and the Friends of the Peabody Institute Library of Danvers welcome Eric Jay Dolin, the best-selling selling author of numerous works of American history, maritime history, and the environment.

His book, Rebels At Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution, reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War. Privateers, often seen as profiteers and pirates, were crucial to America’s first war. The ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon men-of-war, truly revealed the new nation’s character, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. Abounding with tales of daring maneuvers and deadly encounters, Rebels at Sea presents the American Revolution as we have rarely seen it before. Award-winning author Eric Jay Dolin will make this aspect of our early history come alive.

Eric Jay Dolin is the author of sixteen books. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution, was awarded the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award and the Samuel Eliot Morison Book Award for Naval Literature, given out by the Naval Order of the United States; and was a finalist for the New England Society Book Award and the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Book Award. Dolin lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his family. For more information, please see www.ericjaydolin.com. The Danvers Historical Society’s monthly speaker series offers talks on a wide range of topics.

This program will take place at Tapley Hall on Page Street. FREE and no registration is required.