The Pirate Academy

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Behind the Museum Walls

Learn the Golden Age — on your own terms

Short lessons drawn from the museum’s galleries: slides, film, and check-ins that ask you to think, not to pass a test. You grade your own understanding; we just tell you what your answers reveal.

Recruitment & the Sociology of the Account

Why Men Turned Pirate

Debt, impressment, primogeniture, and the brutal merchant ship: the push and pull that made the black flag a rational choice.

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Coming soon

The Pirate Democracy

Articles, shares, and the elected captain — how a ship of outlaws governed itself.

In preparation