This Week on History Happy Hour: The forgotten story of American privateers during the Revolution - daring freelance captains whose high-seas adventures proved essential to winning the war. Nearly 2000 privateering ships set sail - capturing an astonishing 1800 British vessels.

Chris and Rick welcome Eric Jay Dolin, author of the new book Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution.

From 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon men-of-war, a rag-tag fleet that made a difference, Sunday at 4PM ET on History Happy Hour, where history is always on tap.

Eric Jay Dolin is the bestselling author of 14 books, many on maritime history. His previous book, A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes, was chosen by the Washington Post as one of 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020, and by the New York Times Book Review as an "Editor's Choice." He is also the author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, and Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates. A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in environmental policy, Dolin lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his family.