History Camp Discussions | Thursdays @ 8pm, Eastern
Eric Jay Dolin’s earlier discussions and presentations
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
Other History Camp Author Discussions related to privateers, maritime affairs during the Revolutionary War, and selected discussions relating to other aspects of the Revolutionary War
Christian McBurney — Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade
Frederick C. Leiner — Prisoners of the Bashaw: The Nineteen-Month Captivity of American Sailors in Tripoli, 1803-1805
Maureen Taylor — Images of the Revolutionary War Generation
T. Cole Jones — Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution
Joyce Lee Malcolm — The Times That Try Men’s Souls: The Adams, the Quincys, and the Battle for Loyalty in the American Revolution
Please join us at HistoryCamp.org/discussions for this free event and watch replays of earlier interviews, presentations, and discussions
About History Camp Author Discussions
Weekly History Camp Author Discussions use a lively, conversational approach to learn more about an interesting historical topic from a noted author. Past guests include David Blight, Tom Clavin, Charles Fishman, Allen Guelzo, Arthur Herman, Damien Lewis, Joyce Lee Malcolm, Thomas Ricks, Andrew Roberts, Stacy Schiff, and Amity Shlaes, among many others. In 2024, we had as our guests both Pulitzer Prize winners for Biography, Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo.
History Camp Author Discussions are free to all—no registration needed—and stream to our HistoryCamp.org/discussions page and to multiple social media platforms. After the broadcast, they live on forever in our archive at HistoryCamp.org/archive, each on a dedicated page with additional information about the author.
Topics cover all aspects of history. We do not include historical fiction and we do not cover modern politics. (For “modern,” we draw the line at the Nixon administration.) If a book includes modern history, we take our discussion up to that point and leave our guests to read more in the author’s book.
A project of the non-profit organization The Pursuit of History
History Camp Author Discussions were launched in 2020 and are a project of the The Pursuit of History, the non-profit organization that engages adults in conversation about history and connects them with historic sites in their communities and across the country through innovative in-person and online programming.
History Camp was founded in 2014 as an annual in-person event. History Camp Boston takes place every year in August at Suffolk University Law School, on the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston and directly across from the Old Granary Burying Ground. Authors are welcome to join us, including coming and presenting or getting a table and selling their book. More information is at HistoryCamp.org/boston.
Contact us
To recommend a book and author for History Camp Author Discussions, contact us at Discussions@HistoryCamp.org. We look forward to hearing from you.