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Friday, October 20, 2023

A Liberal Dose, Oct. 19, 2023 "1619: How Slavery Started in the English Colonies"

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  A Liberal Dose October 19, 2023 Troy D. Smith “1619: How Slavery Started in the English Colonies”   In the last couple of week...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon, by... Joe Simon and Jack Kirby?? And Alex Toth??

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  October 20th is the premiere of the newest Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon , starring Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

A Liberal Dose, Oct. 12 2023 "How Slavery Differed in the New World"

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  A Liberal Dose October 12, 2023 Troy D. Smith “How Slavery Differed in the New World”   This week we are going to see just how...
Saturday, October 7, 2023

A Liberal Dose, Oct. 5, 2023 "How the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Began"

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  A Liberal Dose October 5, 2023 Troy D. Smith “How the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Began”   Last week I told you about the Arab ...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 28, 2023 "Does the History of Slavery Matter Today?"

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  A Liberal Dose September 28, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Does the History of Slavery Matter Today?”   This week I am going to talk abo...
Friday, September 22, 2023

A Liberal Dose, September 21, 2023 "Now Her Ghost Follows Me Everywhere"

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A Liberal Dose September 21, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Now Her Ghost Follows Me Everywhere” “It is impossible to say how first the idea ente...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 14, 2023 "Who Is It That 'Weaponized the Justice System'?"

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  A Liberal Dose September 14, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Who Is It That ‘Weaponized the Justice System’?” I want to open this week by acknow...
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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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