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Monday, September 1, 2014

Labor Day Musings: Why Unions Still Matter

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Sometimes students complain to me that my American History survey classes are an endless refrain of “race, race, race,” or “labor, labor,...
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Race in Ferguson, MO... Race in America

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     Troy D. Smith I wear a lot of different hats nowadays. But my main hat is that of historian, specifically historian of race in Amer...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Western Comics Focus

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For about the last year-and-a-half, I've been doing a regular monthly feature at the Western Fictioneers blog called "Western Comi...

Writing About Indians When You're Not One

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For over a year now, I've been writing a semi-regular blog over at Western Fictioneers called "Writing About Indians When You'...
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Friday, July 4, 2014

Remembering Jory Sherman

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Troy D. Smith Last Saturday evening I arrived at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, to visit my daughter and her family for a few days. Within m...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

A Schoolboy's War: A WWII Memoir

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Ebenezer Press is delighted to announce the release of A Schoolboy's War  by Derek Couturas. It is a touching memoir about the Briti...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Western Trail Blazer -new releases

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Troy D. Smith We're trying to start 2014 off right over at Western Trail Blazer. In our first month of WTB's new era, we've re...
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Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land and in 2017 for the short story "Odell's Bones" (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently a history professor at Tennessee Tech.
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