Summary: <p>During the American Revolution, the Chesapeake Bay was a pirate’s nest. The men who plied the Bay’s waters had shifting loyalties, competing interests, and a keen sense of how to use the law to legitimize their actions.</p> <p>In fact, they are part of a much richer history of piracy in the Bay.</p> <p>From the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, pirates were a constant feature of Chesapeake society. They connected the Bay and its communities with the wider Atlantic world, and even to the Indian Ocean.</p> <p>And in later years, they battled local authorities for control of the Chesapeake’s lucrative oyster trade.</p> <p>On today's episode, we're pleased to bring you the audio version of Jim Ambuske's <a href="//www.mountvernon.org/gwdigitaltalks">live stream</a> conversation with Dr. Jamie L. H. Goodall, Staff Historian for the US Army’s Center of Military History. Goodall is the author of the new book, <a href="https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467141161"><em>Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars</em></a>.</p> <p><strong>About Our Guest:</strong></p> <p>Jamie L. H. Goodall, Ph.D. is Staff Historian at the Center of Military History, US Army, in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. in Archaeology and M.A. in Public History-Museum Studies from Appalachian State University (Boone, North Carolina) in 2008 and 2010 respectively. She was awarded her PhD from The Ohio State in May 2016. She is a former Assistant Professor of History at Stevenson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Goodall is the author of <a href="https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467141161"><em>Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars</em></a><em> </em>(The History Press, 2020).</p> <p><strong>About Our Host:</strong></p> <p>Jim Ambuske leads the <a href="https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/">Center for Digital History</a> at the Washington Library. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia in 2016 with a focus on Scotland and America in an Age of War and Revolution. He is a former Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia Law Library. At UVA, Ambuske co-directed the<a href="http://archives.law.virginia.edu/catalogue/"> </a><a href="http://archives.law.virginia.edu/catalogue/">1828 Catalogue Project</a> and the <a href="http://scos.law.virginia.edu/">Scottish Court of Session Project</a>. He is the co-author with Randall Flaherty of "Reading Law in the Early Republic: Legal Education in the Age of Jefferson," in The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University ed. by John A. Rogasta, Peter S. Onuf, and Andrew O'Shaughnessy (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019). Ambuske is currently at work on a book entitled Emigration and Empire: America and Scotland in the Revolutionary Era, as well as a chapter on Scottish loyalism during the American Revolution for a volume to be published by the University of Edinburgh Press.</p>
