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Saturday, July 30, 2022

A Liberal Dose, July 28, 2022 "A Very Brief History of Public Education in America"

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  A Liberal Dose July 28, 2022 Troy D. Smith “A very brief history of public education in America”   This week I want to talk a li...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

A Liberal Dose, July 21, 2022 "Stop Treating Our Teachers Like Dirt"

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  A Liberal Dose July 21, 2022 Troy D. Smith “Stop Treating Our Teachers Like Dirt”   I’m going to take a break from chronicling t...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

A Liberal Dose, July 14, 2022 "A Republic, If We Can Keep It: Democracy in the Balance"

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  A Liberal Dose July 14, 2022 Troy D. Smith “A Republic, If We Can Keep It: Democracy in the Balance”   Last week I gave my opini...
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Thursday, July 7, 2022

A Liberal Dose, July 7, 2022 "What Will Be the Legacy of Donald Trump?"

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  A Liberal Dose July 7, 2022 Troy D. Smith “What Will Be the Legacy of Donald Trump?”   On January 6, 2021, a frenzied crowd of T...
Friday, July 1, 2022

A Liberal Dose, June 30, 2022 "This Insurrection Was Carefully Planned, and Cold-Blooded"

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A Liberal Dose June 30, 2022 Troy D. Smith “This Insurrection Was Carefully Planned, and Cold-Blooded”   Today I am going to wrap up the fac...
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...
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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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