From Sayyida al-Hurra and Grace O'Malley to Neel Cuyper and Ching Shih, these female pirates ran maritime empires with force, power, and shrewdness.

Throughout its run, Netlix’s hit “Outer Banks” series has made no shortage of references to real North Carolina places, people and things. It perhaps was only a matter of time, then, that the popular ...

While Dionysius may have been the first recorded pirate, the most famous pirates lived during the 17th and 18th centuries, which came to be known as the golden age of sea piracy.