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Monday, December 27, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Dec. 23, 2021 "What's the Big Deal about Voter ID?"

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  A Liberal Dose December 23, 2021 Troy D. Smith “What’s the Big Deal about Voter ID?”   I spent the last seven columns describing...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

A Liberal Dose, December 16, 2021 "Voting History Part 7- the Civil Rights Era"

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  A Liberal Dose December 16, 2021 Troy D. Smith “History of Voting, Part 7: The Civil Rights Era” Read PART 1 Read PART 2 Read PART 3...
Thursday, December 9, 2021

A Liberal Dose, Dec. 9, 2021: "History of Voting Part 6: The Jim Crow South"

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  A Liberal Dose December 9, 2021 Troy D. Smith “History of Voting, Part 6: The Jim Crow South”   Read PART 1 Read PART 2 Read PART 3 ...
Thursday, December 2, 2021

A Liberal Dose, December 2, 2021 "Voting History part 5: Reconstruction"

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  A Liberal Dose December 2, 2021 Troy D. Smith “History of Voting, Part 5: Reconstruction”   Read PART 1 Read PART 2 Read PART 3 Re...
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...
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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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