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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

A Survivor's Tale

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A SURVIVOR’S TALE By Troy Smith -- Sitting at the bedside Of this frail little woman Who helped raise me Holding her gossamer h...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Universal Truth

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UNIVERSAL TRUTH I have spent my life Arms outstretched Looking for truth “and the world Shall be better for this” Artist, author Poet, his...
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

A Question about Race and Politics

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The essay below –which wasn’t meant to be an essay –was in response to some specific questions from a (very conservative) student, as well ...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

East Meets Western: Cowboys, Samurai, and Shaolin Monks

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This is a guest blog I did over at the Western Fictioneers website, which you can find HERE :
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Sunday, July 17, 2016

No, There Were No "White Slaves" in America

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I keep seeing these articles and memes going around about how there were “White slaves”, usually Irish, in the New World. I am attaching a...
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List of Previous Historical Essays

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I first started blogging almost a decade ago, first on my author's homepage and then, beginning in 2011, here. It was something I did t...

England, Japan, and Race

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This is the first of several topics I have been mulling over for a few years, which I will probably not pursue in an academic article (as I...
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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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