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My name is Greg Jackson.

I'm a PhD holding historian, a professor and the creator of history that doesn't suck.

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fractious civil war, tenacious inventors, brave reformers, and more.

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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.

That's a line from the 1738 edition of Poor Richard's Almanac, written by Benjamin Franklin.

I love that quote, and I'm a fan of Franklin himself.

He's easy to like, which isn't necessarily to be said for all the founding fathers. He was an abolitionist and a revolutionary

and a scientist and an innovator and a publisher and he established a colonial communication network as the Postmaster General.

And he managed to live up to both aspects of his quote.

He wrote extensively on a variety of subjects and his life was one about which untold books have been written.

However, when I'm reading about pirates and privateers, I think about that quote a lot.

There's a similar sentiment to be found in the Iliad.

Achilles, one of the heroes, is forced to choose between either Nostos, a victorious homecoming or Clios, a glory in battle.

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