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Thursday, March 30, 2023

"Needed: Your Memories About Weather in the Upper Cumberland"

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  A Liberal Dose: March 30, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Needed: Your Memories about Weather in the Upper Cumberland” The primary purpose of this c...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

A Liberal Dose, March 23, 2023 "Perceptions of Reality Are Defined by Your Perspective- So Widen It"

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  A Liberal Dose March 23, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Perceptions of Reality are Defined by Your Perspective -So Widen It”   Today (Sunda...
Monday, March 20, 2023

"What Is Behind the Rage Against Drag Shows?"

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  A Liberal Dose March 16, 2023 Troy D. Smith “What is behind the rage against drag shows?”   I recently heard someone say “Tennes...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

"Let's All Find the Better Angels of Our Nature"

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A Liberal Dose March 9, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Let’s All Find the Better Angels of Our Nature”   I want to begin this column by ackno...
Saturday, March 4, 2023

“Two Years After Trump- Where Are We Now?”

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  A Liberal Dose March 2, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Two Years After Trump- Where Are We Now?”   I am writing this on the second annivers...
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...
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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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