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Thursday, October 14, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Oct. 14, 2021 "Witch Hunts in America"

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  A Liberal Dose October 14, 2021 Troy D. Smith “Witch Hunts in America”   It’s October, and many of us have Halloween on our mind...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Oct. 7, 2021 "What Is So Bad about Columbus?"

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  A Liberal Dose October 7, 2021 Troy D. Smith “What’s So Bad about Columbus?”   Last week I wrote that it is the duty of historia...
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Saturday, October 2, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 30, 2021 "The Duties of a Historian Explained"

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  A Liberal Dose September 30, 2021 Troy D. Smith “The Duties of a Historian”   I am currently teaching one of my favorite classes...
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Thursday, September 23, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 23, 2021 "Labor History in White County, Part 4"

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  A Liberal Dose September 23, 2021 Troy D. Smith “Labor History in White County, Part 4” (see Part 1  HERE ,  Part 2  HERE , and Part...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 16, 2021 "Labor History in White County, Part 3"

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  A Liberal Dose September 16, 2021 Troy D. Smith “Labor History in White County, Part 3” (see Part 1  HERE  and Part 2 HERE )   L...
Monday, September 13, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 9, 2021 "Labor History in White County Part 2"

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  A Liberal Dose September 9, 2021 Troy D. Smith “Labor History in White County, Part 2” (see Part 1  HERE )   Last week, in honor...
Saturday, September 4, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 2, 2021 "Labor History in White County, Part 1"

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  A Liberal Dose September 2, 2021 Troy D. Smith “Labor History in White County, Part 1”   Labor Day has become, for many of us, a...
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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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