Tennessee WordSmith

  Much has been said recently about the New York Times 1619 Project, but how many folks know about another year in that century -1676? War...

 I promised some time ago to put up the first five lectures of my U.S. History course, in which I don't introduce Europeans until the en...

  Troy D. Smith As I look at my blog I see I have not posted here since January of this year (2020)... a sad poem about rain, which was an a...

RAINDROPS Can raindrops wash away the sin    The tracks of places you have been    The tears of people that you knew    The trace of f...

[ Recent events have reminded me of a poem I wrote almost exactly thirty years ago...} Note- Mount Moriah was the site where Abraham was to...

"How many books have you written?" That's a question I get a lot, and my answer is usually something like "um, I'm ...

Troy D. Smith Author's note: I have not posted anything on this blog in over a year... because last year was unbelievably busy fo...