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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Thinking About Issues That Concern Native Americans

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  A Liberal Dose February 23, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Thinking about issues that concern Native Americans”   My apologies for going AW...
Friday, February 17, 2023

A Brief Overview of Indigenous Culture

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  In several of my classes, it is necessary early on to explain some basics about indigenous culture. This is true in early U.S. history, al...
Thursday, February 9, 2023

A Liberal Dose, Feb. 9 2023, "Rubbing Shoulders with Nazis- On a Slippery Slope with Skates"

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A Liberal Dose February 9, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Rubbing shoulders with Nazis- on a slippery slope with skates”   On the first week ...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

A Liberal Dose, February 2, 2023 "Protesting with Nazis Is Alliance with Nazis"

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  A Liberal Dose February 2, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Protesting with Nazis is Alliance with Nazis”   As I write this, it is Holocaust ...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

A Liberal Dose, January 26, 2023 “A Few Words About Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

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  A Liberal Dose January 26, 2023 Troy D. Smith “A Few Words About Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”   Last Thursday (January 19) was t...
Friday, January 20, 2023

A Liberal Dose, January 19, 2022 "In America the King Is Not Law, the Law Is King"

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  A Liberal Dose January 19, 2023 Troy D. Smith “In America the King Is Not Law, the Law Is King” Boy, do we now know more than we eve...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

A Liberal Dose, January 12, 2022 "Today's News or Yesterday's History, Learn to Read Between the Lines"

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A Liberal Dose January 12, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Today’s news or yesterday’s history, learn to read between the lines”   In recent w...
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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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