With the upcoming film Pirates of the Caribbean 6, which is set to star Margot Robbie, POTC has a chance to include some new figures from the history of piracy. POTC takes place, roughly speaking ...

Female pirates were exceedingly rare at this time (in many cases, women were banned from ships), but It's likely that Bonny was inspired by Grace O'Malley, another Irish pirate, who was granted an ...

Salem museum to mark 308 years since sinking of famous pirate ship 01:36. Saturday marks the 308th anniversary of the sinking of the pirate ship, Whydah, after one of the worst storms in history ...

This tension between stricture and freedom and the codification of social norms characterizes a certain group of real-life pirates, whose motley tale the late anthropologist David Graeber ...

Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix. Teach, known more commonly by his colorful nickname, was a real-life pirate who sailed the West Indies and Caribbean in the late 1600s.