Pirates

One of my favorite subjects, I'm just an old pirate at hart - Err!

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Locations and Museums

• The Mariner's Museum - Newport News, VA
  Information regarding this museum's exhibits on piracy and maritime history.
• North Carolina Archives and History
  This site provides information regarding the archaeological discovery of Blackbeard's ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, and also has stuff on pirates in general, Blackbeard, groups interested in shipwrecks, etc.
• Pirates of Nassau Museum
  A brief history of piracy in the Bahamas, as well as information about the museum. You can even explore the museum online.

Nautical Archaeology

• Oak Island
  Interesting location around Nova Scotia rumored to hold treasure successfully booby-trapped for 200 years.
• TreasureNet
  This site has some information of archaeological value, but as the Pirate King says, they're "mostly treasure hunting bastards."

General Information

• The American Neptune
  A quarterly journal of maritime history that publishes articles on a variety of nautical topics in American History. Tables of contents for some issues can be viewed online, but full text of articles requires purchase.
• Captain Morgan's Journal
  Bibliography and links, but not much else.
• Isle of Tortuga
  Formerly the "Homepage Wastrel: Piracy," this site has tons of information on piracy.
• John's Nautical and Boatbuilding Page
  Has tons of links to sources for nautical literature and a wide variety of other maritime topics.
• The Jolly Roger
  An electronic magazine about piracy that contains an art gallery.
• Pirate's Cove
  An excellent site. Not only does it have excellent information about piracy, but the author also has an excellent philosophy about nautical archaeology.
• Pirates History
  "An educational web site devoted to the subject of pirates".
• Pirate's Hold
  An interesting approach to organizing a web site on piracy. This site has sections with http://www.boulderinternetguide.com/images of pirate flags, a list of pirate films, some http://www.boulderinternetguide.com/images of maps, ships, etc.
• Pirates of the Spanish Main
  A site similar to this one, filled with all sorts of piracy-related links - look here for stuff about pirate movies or stuff for kids, as well as historical information.

Individual Pirates

Blackbeard

• Blackbeard's Homepage
  All about Blackbeard.
• Blackbeard Lives
  This site has an interesting little game that you can play to learn more about Blackbeard.
• National Geographic's Pirates
  Basically, a history of Blackbeard with some links to books and other sites.

Morgan, Sir Henry

• Sir Henry Morgan - A Welsh Buccaneer
  The biography of Henry Morgan.

Books and Online Texts

• No Quarter Given
  A pirate newsletter.
• Treasure Island
  The online text of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.

http://www.boulderinternetguide.com/images and Maps

• Beej's Pirate Image Archive
  The best source on the web for http://www.boulderinternetguide.com/images of pirates and piracy

Commercial Sites

• Pirates! Store T-Shirts
  This site sells t-shirts of pirates, but also has some games and quizzes, maps, a bibliography, and other stuff. Most of the t-shirts are representations of actual flags flown by various pirates.