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  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 18 Aug 201918 Aug 2019

The New York Times Magazine devotes the entirety of this week’s issue to a single…

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“Hispanic Invasion of Texas” – What, are you kidding me?

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 4 Aug 20194 Aug 2019

Once again we suffer the cost of an ignoramus with a gun putting the most…

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  • The 'Foreign' Past

The Historian as Tourist

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 3 Jul 201918 Jul 2019

(This is an excerpted and modified version of an essay that first appeared in a…

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  • Medievalists.net
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