Last American Pirate

dc.contributor.author	Kelly, Mills
dc.contributor.author	Various
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-04T21:01:49Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-04T21:01:49Z
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.description	The WARC file must be opened using a program like Webrecorder.io. The ZIP contains a static version of the website.
dc.description.abstract	The Last American Pirate was a scholarly hoax perpetrated by students in History 389 at George Mason University in the Fall 2008 semester as part of T. Mills Kelly's course on "Lying About the Past". During this hoax, a (nonexistent) student named Jane explored a (fake) local legend about a house where the (also nonexistent) "Last American Pirate" lived. The purpose of the hoax was to encourage people to think about how easily information takes on a life of its own online, ethics in the historical profession, and the role of digital media in popular culture. URL: lastamericanpirate.net
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11738
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
dc.subject	Digital history
dc.subject	Pedagogy
dc.title	Last American Pirate
dc.type	Learning Object