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Saturday, January 22, 2022

A Liberal Dose, January 20, 2022 "'Seditious Insurrectionists' Need to Understand What Treason Is"

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  A Liberal Dose January 20, 2022 Troy D. Smith “’Seditious Insurrectionists’ Need to Understand What Treason Is”   Back in 2003, ...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

A Liberal Dose, Jan. 13, 2022 "The Return of the Paxton Boys"

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  A Liberal Dose January 13, 2022 Troy D. Smith “The Return of the Paxton Boys”   On my first day back to work after the holidays,...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

A Liberal Dose, January 6 2022 "The Biggest Attack on Elections in American History"

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  Note: this is the culmination of a ten-part series on voting. To read the entire series in one document, click  HERE A Liberal Dose Janu...

A Brief History of Voting in America -from 1776 to January 6

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A Brief History of Voting in America -from 1776 to January 6 by Troy D. Smith Introduction: This collection of short (650 words each) essays...
Sunday, January 2, 2022

A Liberal Dose, December 30, 2021 "The Present Attack on Voting in America"

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  A Liberal Dose December 30, 2021 Troy D. Smith “The Present Attack on Voting in America”   Last time I discussed how voter ID la...
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...
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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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