{"id":60905,"date":"2021-11-21T19:17:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T00:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=60905"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:35:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:35:45","slug":"americas-pirates","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/americas-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">America&#8217;s Pirates<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"dd5c85ee5bc33a1cbf2bdb6d8485cfcb\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR92177b8092d3dbd6d08f695704ac905a\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTR92177b8092d3dbd6d08f695704ac905a\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTR92177b8092d3dbd6d08f695704ac905a\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60905?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR92177b8092d3dbd6d08f695704ac905a&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60905?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTR92177b8092d3dbd6d08f695704ac905a\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: February 24, 2022<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The Community Bank of the Chesapeake Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives Lecture 2022: America&#039;s Pirates\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/665296688?h=182a459ec8&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Mar19_Americas-Pirates-203x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Mar19_Americas-Pirates-203x300.jpg 203w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Mar19_Americas-Pirates-768x1134.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Mar19_Americas-Pirates-694x1024.jpg 694w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Mar19_Americas-Pirates-772x1140.jpg 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><p>Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, <cite>Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates<\/cite> reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy\u2019s \u201cGolden Age\u201d\u2014spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s\u2014when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. In his slide show and presentation, Eric Jay Dolin will illustrate how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of colonial solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them. Through engrossing episodes of roguish glamour and extreme brutality, Dolin depicts the star pirates of this period, including towering Blackbeard, as well as pirates whose stories are less familiar, but whose despicable deeds are often just as riveting. Upending popular misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Dolin provides this wholly original account of the seafaring outlaws whose raids reflect the precarious nature of American colonial life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Eric Jay Dolin<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Mar19_Eric-Dolin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Mar19_Eric-Dolin-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Mar19_Eric-Dolin-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/10\/Mar19_Eric-Dolin-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Eric Jay Dolin is the author of fifteen books, including <cite>Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America,<\/cite> which was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by the <cite>Los Angeles Times<\/cite> and the <cite>Boston Globe,<\/cite> and also won the 2007 John Lyman Award for U.S. Maritime History. His most recent book is <cite> A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes<\/cite>, which was chosen as one of the best books of the year by <cite>The Washington Post<\/cite>, <cite>Booklist<\/cite>, <cite>Library Journal<\/cite>, and the editors at Amazon, and was also a finalist for the <cite>Kirkus<\/cite> Prize. Prior to <cite>A Furious Sky<\/cite>, he published <cite>Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates<\/cite>, which was chosen as a \"Must Read\" book for 2019 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and was a finalist for the 2019 Julia Ward Howe Award given by the Boston's Author's Club. A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his PhD in environmental policy, Dolin lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1245],"class_list":{"0":"post-60905","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1245","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>America&#039;s Pirates - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/americas-pirates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"America&#039;s Pirates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/americas-pirates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Great Lives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-30T13:35:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/americas-pirates\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/greatlives\\\/lecture\\\/americas-pirates\\\/\",\"name\":\"America's Pirates - 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