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Friday, November 26, 2021

What You Don't Get Taught About Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims

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  Troy D. Smith November 26, 2021   Two days ago, on the day before Thanksgiving, I was contacted by two different news venues to publ...

A Liberal Dose, November 25, 2021 "History of Voting Part 4: Native Americans"

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  A Liberal Dose November 25, 2021 Troy D. Smith “History of Voting, Part 4: Native Americans” Read PART 1 Read PART 2 Read PART 3  ...
Friday, November 19, 2021

A Liberal Dose, November 18, 2021 "History of Voting Part 3: Women's Suffrage"

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  A Liberal Dose November 18, 2021 Troy D. Smith “History of Voting, Part 3: Women’s Suffrage”   Read PART 1 Read PART 2 We’ve bee...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

A Liberal Dose, November 11, 2021 "The History of Voting in America, Part 2: Poor white and free black voters

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  A Liberal Dose November 11, 2021 Troy D. Smith “The History of Voting in America, Part 2” (Read Part 1  HERE)   Last week we dis...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Nov. 4, 2021 "The History of Voting in America, Part 1"

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  A Liberal Dose November 4, 2021 Troy D. Smith “The History of Voting in America, Part 1”   In November, most peoples’ thoughts (...
Friday, October 29, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Oct. 28, 2021 "Sparta's Black Union Troops Deserve Honor"

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  A Liberal Dose October 28, 2021 Troy D. Smith “Sparta’s Black Union Troops Deserve Honor”   This past Saturday (October 23), the...
Monday, October 25, 2021

A Liberal Dose, October 21, 2021 "What's So Important about Tenure?"

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  A Liberal Dose October 21, 2021 Troy D. Smith "What's So Important about Tenure?"   A few years ago my family was ...
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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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