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One of the best graduate courses I ever took was Dr. De La Teja’s History of Colonial Mexico

By Seamus O'Sparks on November 2, 2013 — 1 min read

One of the best graduate courses I ever took was Dr. De La Teja’s History of Colonial Mexico (New Spain). The mythos is that the Mexica (Aztecs) believed that Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl returning. This belief gave Cortes the kind of berth he needed to topple an empire. In the wake of death, disease,... More

The Story of Seamus

Seamus O'Sparks is the seventh son of a Seventh Day Adventist who went on a seven-day bender starting on July 7, 1977 at a strip club called Seventh Heaven at the corner of 7th St. and 7th Ave. in the West Village.