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A Spooky Family Inheritance

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 29 Oct 202129 Oct 2021

On both sides of the Mexico-US border, ghosts exert an influence upon my family’s sense…

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  • Uncategorized

Covid-19 and the Black Death

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 10 Aug 202010 Aug 2020

My mini-reflection on what we can learn from crises was published today, August 10, 2020,…

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John Lewis just sent you a gift

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 30 Jul 2020

John Lewis, civil rights leader and congressman, died on July 17. He will be buried…

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  • Social Problems

Imagining the New Normal

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 30 Mar 202030 Mar 2020

In recent years, the people who think about disaster preparedness, as well as pundits and…

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  • Medievalizing

Medieval Fair Fantasies and the Alt-Right

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 16 Jan 202016 Jan 2020

I abhor medieval fairs. When I joke about my revulsion with students, I tell them…

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  • Medievalizing

Mexican Templars and Ukraine’s Crusaders

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 23 Dec 201923 Mar 2020

As the year 2020 approaches you may be in a mood to put behind you…

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  • Heritage

Don’t Take Away My Filioque

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 8 Sep 20198 Sep 2019

In this post I show in a slightly wonky and self-deprecating way how fickle we…

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  • Heritage

1619

  • 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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  • Catalonia

Blowing Up Buses and Reciting Poetry: A Very Short Primer on Spanish Separatist Nationalisms

  • by Michael A. Vargas
  • Posted on 7 Aug 20197 Aug 2019

This post responds to a question raised by a reader of the earlier posts “Wilfred…

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  • The 'Foreign' Past

“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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Previous posts

  • A Spooky Family Inheritance

    29 Oct 2021
  • Covid-19 and the Black Death

    10 Aug 2020
  • John Lewis just sent you a gift

    30 Jul 2020
  • Mike’s Choir Follies and Medieval Flagellants

    1 Jul 2020
  • It’s not your great, great, great… grandparents’ Black Death

    16 Apr 2020

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  • H-Net
  • Medieval Histories: Nature, History, Heritage
  • Medievalists.net
  • Vademècum
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