What are the chances that there would be two American historians of U.S. history with the names “Colin Woodward” and “Colin Woodard”? The observable evidence suggests the answer is “very… Read more »
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Talking pirates with Press Herald Live, May 13, 7pm
For subscribers of the Portland Press Herald: I’ll be talking with colleague Katherine Lee about the real pirates of the Caribbean, what it was like to write and research… Read more »
What Netflix’s “Lost Pirate Kingdom” got right (and wrong) about the Golden Age Pirates
I greatly enjoyed being an on-camera expert for Netflix’s hit docudrama series “Lost Pirate Kingdom,” which essentially tells the story of the Golden Age pirate gang related in my 2007… Read more »
Talking pirates on a forthcoming Netflix series
A few months before the pandemic struck I travelled to a Manhattan studio to film an hours-long interview with a British production company working on a documentary-drama on the Bahamas-based… Read more »
Talking pirates with Discovery’s “Expedition Unknown” (before the pandemic)
At the end of August, long before the new coronavirus infected its first human, I was in Paris talking with Josh Gates, host of Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown” about the… Read more »
Talking the Republic of Pirates in, yes, Nassau, The Bahamas, Feb. 24
My third book, The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down is the most comprehensive, back-to-the-archives account… Read more »
In France
I’ve been in France this week. I can’t say too much about it, except that it involved a television shoot, the Museum of the Freemasons in Paris, and maybe something… Read more »
On Blackbeard, 300 years after his death, in the New York Times
Republic of Pirates fans take note: 2018 has been the 300th anniversary of Woodes Rogers’ landing at Nassau, marking the formal — if tumultuous and uncertain — end of the… Read more »
What did pirates look like? My Business Insider interview
The folks at Business Insider recently called to talk about what the Golden Age pirates really looked and acted like because, well, why not? The interview is up over at… Read more »
Talking pirates with Hilary Duff on TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are?
In an unlikely development, I recently returned to Blackbeard’s Bath, North Carolina haunt to chat with actress Hilary Duff about one of her ancestors, the man responsible for the pirate’s… Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.