I’m filming an in-studio interview for a forthcoming historical documentary television episode on one of the pirates I wrote about in Republic of Pirates in Glendale, California the morning of… Read more »
Articles Tagged: Republic of Pirates
Speaking on the Golden Age pirates at the Livonia Town Hall, Livonia, Michigan, Nov. 19 (Private)
I’ll be presenting the story of Blackbeard and the Golden Age pirates as part of the speaker series of the Livonia Town Hall organization in the Detroit suburb of the… Read more »
Talking pirates with Julian Dorey
I recently popped down to very New Netherlandish Hoboken, New Jersey to record a podcast on pirates with Julian Dorsey for his eponymous show. We had a lively and enjoyable… Read more »
Book signing in Freeport, Maine, June 29
My book about the history and identity of coastal Maine, The Lobster Coast, turns twenty this summer and to celebrate Viking has released a new edition (same ISBN!) with a… Read more »
Book signing in Portland, Maine, June 29
My book about the history and identity of coastal Maine, The Lobster Coast, turns twenty this summer and to celebrate Viking has released a new edition (same ISBN!) with a… Read more »
Republic of Pirates – Now in Romanian
I spent many, many weeks of my early 20s exploring Romania in the late Ceausescu and early post-totalitarian years, a fascinating country that I never got enough of…. Read more »
Explaining the “pirate king” Henry Avery on Discovery’s Expedition Unknown
This past fall I met up with Josh Gates, host and producer of Discovery Channel’s Expedition Unknown, at London’s oldest pub, The Prospect of Whitby to talk about the legendary… Read more »
Was there any historic truth to Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean films?
Dan Lefebrve has a popular podcast — Based on a True Story — in which he asks an expert how well a given Hollywood film matched up to historical reality…. Read more »
Filming segment on pirates: Los Angeles, California, Oct. 26 (private)
I’ll be in Los Angeles to record a television interview segment relating to a figure from the Golden Age of Piracy I researched for my history, The Republic of Pirates…. Read more »
Filming segment on pirates: London, U.K, Oct. 14 (private)
I’ll be back in the United Kingdom to record a television interview segment relating to a figure from the Golden Age of Piracy I researched for my history, The Republic… Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven 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 Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.