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Sunday, April 24, 2022

A Liberal Dose, April 21, 2022 "A History of Upper Cumberland Violence and Its Effects"

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  A Liberal Dose April 21, 2022 Troy D. Smith “A History of Upper Cumberland Violence”   I’m currently working on a project that i...

A Liberal Dose, April 14, 2022 "This Land Was Made for You and Me"

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  A Liberal Dose April 14, 2022 Troy D. Smith “This Land Was Made for You and Me”   Last week, in my basic U.S. History course, we...
Saturday, April 9, 2022

A Liberal Dose, April 7, 2022 "You Can't Teach History Without Being Honest"

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  (Note: the title may seem obvious... but so should a lot of things) A Liberal Dose April 7, 2022 Troy D. Smith “You Can’t Teach the ...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

A Liberal Dose, March 31, 2022 "Divisive Concepts Bill: Who Is Actually Being Divisive?"

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A Liberal Dose March 31, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Divisive Concepts” Bill: Who Is Being Divisive?   Conservatives around the country have been tw...
Friday, March 25, 2022

A Liberal Dose, March 24, 2022 "World Gone Mad: What Can We Do About It?"

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  A Liberal Dose March 17, 2022 Troy D. Smith World Gone Mad: What Can We Do About It?   Several people have responded to my colum...
Friday, March 18, 2022

A Liberal Dose, March 17, 2022 "It Feels Like the Whole World Has Gone Crazy"

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  A Liberal Dose March 17, 2022 Troy D. Smith “It Feels Like the World Has Gone Crazy”   The world seems to be getting crazier eve...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

A Liberal Dose, March 3, 2022 "Russia's Aggression and Journey to Fascism"

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A Liberal Dose March 3, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Russia’s Aggression and Journey to Fascism”   Most of the world watched in horror this...
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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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