"History Hour" is a bi-weekly live stream on YouTube where Lisa sits down and discusses history with your favorite historians, authors, and history content creators.

The Golden Age of Piracy hit its peak between 1650 and 1730 and while the tales of Blackbeard Captain Kidd have been exaggerated and we paint them as Robin Hood-type figures they caused very real problems for not only the Spanish colonies or the French colonies but also the English colonies. In this episode, we're going to explore the golden age of piracy How it impacted the Americas, what colonial governments did about pirates, and who were some of the pirates that carved out a reputation to last throughout the centuries.  

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History Byte is a small excerpt from the previous episode. 

Nineteenth-century historian Charles Wentworth Upham wrote, "I hold those two men responsible for what is called 'Salem Witchcraft."   This is a small excerpt from our latest Episode "How the Smallpox Epidemic of 1721 Changed America."  

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Smallpox was the killer you couldn't see.  Between April and December 1721, 5,889 Bostonians had smallpox, and 844 died of it.

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As war breaks out in Europe so too does war break out in North America. But unlike king William’s war, this war is not solely focused on New England and Acadia. The American colonies are not only warring with France, but they are also warring with Spain. But just like king William’s war, the Europeans will arm their native allies, and there will be raids and battles from the South in Spanish Florida to the north in Acadia.   

In this week's episode, we discuss Queen Anne's War and the two massacres that took place during the war, the Apalachee and Deerfield massacres.   

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From April of 1688 till September of 1697 hundreds of people would be killed, and countless more captured, held for ransom, or sold into slavery, during King Williams’s War.

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Colonialism was harsh indeed! In the next few episodes, we are going to discuss the many colonial wars leading to the French and Indian war and how they shaped the relationships between cultures in North America for centuries to come.

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The Enlightenment paved the way for the American Revolution. It showed the American Colonists that they have natural rights that cannot be trampled by a tyrannical King. But American Independence could never have been possible without the Great Awakening.   

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