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Sunday, September 22, 2024

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 19, 2024 “My Experience With Haitian Immigrants”

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A Liberal Dose September 1 9 , 2024 Troy D. Smith “ My experience with Haitian immigrants ” Between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one, I s...

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 12, 2024 “What a Crazy Ride This Summer Has Been”

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  A Liberal Dose September 12, 2024 Troy D. Smith “What a Crazy Ride This Summer Has Been”   Things have been pretty hectic and unpredictabl...

A Liberal Dose, Sept. 5, 2024 “The Tide Is Turning for Unions”

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  A Liberal Dose September 5, 2024 Troy D. Smith “The Tide Is Turning for Unions”   I hope you all enjoyed the recent Labor Day weekend. And...

A Liberal Dose, Aug. 29, 2024 “A Brief History of Israel and Palestine, Part 7”

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  A Liberal Dose, Aug. 29, 2024 Troy D. Smith “A Brief History of Israel and Palestine, Part 7” So much has been going on politically lately...

A Liberal Dose, Aug. 15, 2024 “Weird How the Tide Is Turning”

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  I am going to say something that might shock you. I don’t care much for Donald Trump. I think he is a self-centered authoritarian who ca...
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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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