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 discussion about the granddaddy of them all, Henry Avery, and the pirate gang he inspired, a tale I researched for my history, The Republic of Pirates. Along the way we even got into the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the realities of 18th century sailing vessels, and how the U.S. is divided into multiple regional cultures.
The result is up over at YouTube and wherever you find your podcasts. It’s Episode 212, “The Deadliest Pirate Manhunt in History.” Enjoy!
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.