Edward Teach, the infamous pirate known as Blackbeard, was born in England in 1680 and died in 1718 on Ocracoke Island. You guessed it, that's part of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Very little is ...

On November 22, 1718, the infamous pirate Blackbeard was killed. The “Golden Age of Piracy” flourished briefly along the North Carolina coast in the early 18th century. Foremost among the pirates was ...

BATH, N.C. — In a pirate-worthy broadside on conventional history, a Raleigh, N.C., author claims Blackbeard and many of his henchmen weren’t rogue Englishmen but sons of North Carolina landowners.

Blackbeard’s reputation didn’t happen by accident, and it wasn’t built on nonstop bloodshed the way movies love to suggest. In real life, he operated during the chaotic “Golden Age of Piracy,” when ...

Kevin Duffus received an instructive lesson the first time he tried to crack one of Blackbeard the Pirate’s secrets. Hunting through the back roads of coastal North Carolina, the persistent history ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — If you know anything about the history of the Cape Fear region, you likely know about the role pirates played in that history. But the truth sometimes isn’t what you see in the ...

BEAUFORT, N.C. Blackbeard's ship has surrendered more of its historical treasures. The Daily News of Jacksonville reports that two cannon have been raised from the wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge ...

Fellow Blackbeard pirate or lifelong slave? A North Carolina historian says one of the famous pirate’s most well-known crew members was a captive – not an African chief – bucking traditional accounts ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in 2014 but Blackbeard history Kevin Duffus is returning to speak at the Hampton History Museum Monday, May 21. No student of Blackbeard the Pirate ...

[Ahoy! There are spoilers for Outer Banks season 3 right ahead. Steer clear if you haven't finished and don't want to know what happens.] He had a large crew and spent his time between England and the ...