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Examining the Past: A History Podcast

Podcast by Solomon Kelly Smith

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History & religion

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About Examining the Past: A History Podcast

My name is Dr. Solomon Smith. I have been teaching history at the University level since 2004. This podcast is an extension of the classes that I teach. The first season will cover a Survey of American History, but future seasons will include topics like Colonial America, The American Revolution, First Contact in the New World, Pirates in the Americas and sports history.

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An Economic Perspective of Piracy

This episode examines piracy during the golden age from an economic history perspective, highlighting how it disrupted trade, reflected political and economic rivalries, and posed legal and jurisdictional challenges. Piracy imposed both immediate and long-term costs by destroying ships, cargo, and labor, increasing protection expenses, reducing trade, and discouraging investment, while sometimes providing competitive advantages to certain merchants. Different forms of piracy—parasitic, intrinsic, and episodic—arose based on trade, politics, and local power, and piracy persists today because it remains profitable, difficult to detect, and thrives in impoverished or poorly governed maritime communities, requiring coordinated enforcement, international cooperation, and economic development to address.

30 Apr 2026 - 42 min
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The Suppression of the Priates

This episode covers how the War of the Spanish Succession briefly allowed former buccaneers to return as privateers, but its end unleashed a short, intense final pirate cycle featuring figures like Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, and Bartholomew Roberts before coordinated naval suppression ended early modern piracy. Transitional figures Henry Avery and William Kidd showed how Europe—especially England—shifted from tolerating pirates to aggressively prosecuting them, driven largely by the commercial interests of the English East India Company and global trade stability. Avery escaped but died in obscurity, while Kidd was executed as a political sacrifice, symbolizing the rise of strong naval power, expanded legal authority, and international cooperation that finally crushed piracy.

21 Apr 2026 - 41 min
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The Last Buccaneers

This episode covers the period after the South Sea raids. Traditional buccaneering declined as European powers increasingly sought to suppress piracy, though wars repeatedly delayed enforcement and allowed piracy to persist in new forms. In the late 17th century, shifting bases in places like the Bahamas, French Hispaniola, and British North America sustained multinational pirate activity, culminating in major raids such as Veracruz (1683) and Cartagena (1697), even as official tolerance steadily eroded. By the early 18th century, piracy briefly revived through privateering during the War of the Spanish Succession, but a coordinated international crackdown—especially by the English Royal Navy—ultimately ended the buccaneer era and ushered pirates into history and legend.

16 Apr 2026 - 32 min
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