Eric Jay Dolin
Speaking Engagements
Over the past ten years I have given more than 350 talks and slide shows on a variety of my books. A partial list of the venues where I have spoken includes the following: American Museum of Natural History, Mystic Seaport, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Mariner's Museum and Park, Tenement Museum, South Street Seaport, National Archives, Politics & Prose Bookstore, Porter Square Bookstore, Harvard Bookstore, Concord Bookshop, Larchmont Yacht Club, Nantucket Whaling Museum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, Cape Cod Natural History Museum, Yale University, House of Seven Gables, Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Concord Festival of Writers, Town Hall Seattle, and scores of libraries throughout New England.
If you are interested in having me as a speaker for any of my books, please contact me via the contact form on this website (see tab above).
January 2023
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Noon-2
Hyannis, MA
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
February 2023
Wednesday February 15, 2023
Time TBD
Peabody, MA
Talk on Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
March 2023
Friday, March 3, 2023
7:30 PM
Littleton High School
33 Shattuck St.
Littleton, Ma
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Postponed due to facility damage. Will be rescheduled for later in the year
7 PM
149 Great Island Road
Plymouth, MA
Talk on Brilliant Beacons: The History of the American Lighthouse
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
6:30 PM
Washington D.C.
Virtual talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
The Historical Society of Watertown
Sunday, March 19, 2023
2:00 PM
Watertown Free Public Library
123 Main Street
Watertown, MA
Talk on Brilliant Beacons: The History of the American Lighthouse
April 2023
Sunday, April 2, 2023
2 PM
At the Wellesley Free Library (main)
530 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Saturday, April 22, 2023
1 PM
1855 Mansion Lane
Mount Joy, Pa
Talk on Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
May 2023
Thursday, May 4, 2023
7 PM
Marblehead, MA
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Thursday, May 18, 2023
6 PM
Old Colony History Museum
66 Church Green
Taunton, MA
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
7 PM
Mount Vernon, VA
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
June 2023
Museum of the American Revolution
Saturday, June 3, 2023
2 PM
101 South Third Street
Philadelphia, PA
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Thursday, June 8, 2023
6 PM
720 Pequot Ave.
Southport, CT
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Thursday, June 29, 2023
6 PM
1 South Street
Middleton, MA
Talk on Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
July 2023
National Maritime Historical Society
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Time and Place to be determined, but either in or near Peekskill, NY
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
August 2023
The Knox Annual Lecture
Thursday, August 17, 2023
5 PM
212 Main Street
Thomaston, ME
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
Talk followed by a gala and auction at the Saltwater Fields Barn
September 2023
Somerset County Library System of New Jersey
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Somerset County, NJ
Zoom talk on A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
Thursday, September 28, 2023
7 PM
170 Washington St.
Marblehead, MA
Talk on Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
December 2023
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Winter Court gathering at The Hope Club in Providence, RI
Private Event
Talk on Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution