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Sunday, June 5, 2016

White Servants, Black and Indian Slaves, and the Turning Point of American History

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All right, here's a history lesson about 17th century colonial plantation labor. It actually started as a reply to someone on Facebook t...
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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Swimming Against the Tide in Higher Ed

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In case you haven’t noticed, there have been a lot of changes in higher education in this century, especially since the economic downturn ...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

How to speak Southern Appalachian

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“Southern Mountain Speech” is the official term given to the dialect spoken in Southern Appalachia. It is a unique subset of the Southern...
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Troy D. Smith
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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