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Friday, June 24, 2022

A Liberal Dose, June 23, 2022 "Trump Knew His Election Fraud Claims Were Untrue"

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  A Liberal Dose June 23, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Trump Knew His Election Fraud Claims Were Untrue”   Another week, another two hearings from th...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

A Liberal Dose, June 16, 2022 "Someone Tried to Steal the Election, All Right"

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  A Liberal Dose June 16, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Someone Tried to Steal the Election, All Right”   One week ago (June 9), the House s...
Friday, June 10, 2022

A Liberal Dose, June 9, 2022 "Why Is It So Hard to Pass Gun Laws?"

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  A Liberal Dose June 9, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Why Is It So Hard to Pass Gun Laws?”     “Another school shooting. It has become li...
Friday, June 3, 2022

A Liberal Dose, June 2, 2022 "Fake Conspiracies Can Lead to Very Real Dangers"

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  A Liberal Dose June 2, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Fake Conspiracies Can Lead to Very Real Dangers”   For the past few weeks my columns ...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

A Liberal Dose, May 26, 2022: "Poverty in the Upper Cumberland: Where Are We and Where Are We Going"

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A Liberal Dose May 26, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Poverty in the Upper Cumberland- Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?”   Over the past...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

A Liberal Dose, May 19, 2022 "The Real Purpose of the Hillbilly Stereotype"

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  A Liberal Dose May 19, 2022 Troy D. Smith “The Real Purpose of the Hillbilly Stereotype”   Sometimes I ask students to list off ...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

A Liberal Dose, May 12, 2022 "The Roots of Upper Cumberland Poverty"

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A Liberal Dose May 12, 2022 Troy D. Smith “The Roots of Upper Cumberland Poverty”   In the last two columns we have determined tha...
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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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