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Friday, January 26, 2024

A Liberal Dose, January 25, 2024 "Understanding WHY the Civil War Was About Slavery"

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  A Liberal Dose January 25, 2024 Troy D. Smith “Understanding Why the Civil War Was About Slavery”   Last week I presented seve...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

A Liberal Dose, January 18, 2024 "How Do We Know the Civil War Was About Slavery?"

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  A Liberal Dose January 18, 2024 Troy D. Smith “How Do We Know the Civil War Was About Slavery?”   As noted last week, more and...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

A Liberal Dose, January 12, 2023 "Why Nikki Haley Could Not Say the Word 'Slavery'"

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  A Liberal Dose January 11, 2024 Troy D. Smith “Why Nikki Haley Could Not Say the Word ‘Slavery’”   As you probably know, a cou...
Friday, January 5, 2024

A Liberal Dose, January 4, 2023 "Three Years Ago This Week: Was It an Insurrection?"

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  A Liberal Dose January 4, 2024 Troy D. Smith “Three Years Ago This Week: Was It an Insurrection?”     Since last week, Maine...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

A Liberal Dose, December 28, 2023 "Disqualified? Trump and Section 3 of the 14th Amendment"

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  A Liberal Dose December 28, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Disqualified? Trump and Section 3 of the 14 th Amendment”   First, I hope eve...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

A Liberal Dose, Dec. 21, 2023 "It Is Not Just Donald Trump That Is on Trial"

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  A Liberal Dose December 21, 2023 Troy D. Smith “It is not just Donald Trump that is on trial”   As you read this, the Supreme ...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

A Liberal Dose, December 14, 2023 "Understanding the Past is the Key to the Present AND the Future"

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  A Liberal Dose November 30, 2023 Troy D. Smith “Understanding the Past Is the Key to the Present AND the Future” Recently my fri...
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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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