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Scott M. Smith

Scott M. Smith

After a thirty year career on Wall Street, Scott retired in 2014 to pursue a lifelong passion to write. His cybersecurity novel, Darkness is Coming, won Distinguished Favorite in the Thriller category in the NYC Big Book Award competition. In 2017, he began researching the life and times of Nathan Hale, the official hero of his adopted home state of Connecticut. The effort resulted in a biographical novel, entitled But One Life, as well as whetted Scott’s appetite to further explore this period in American history.

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Economics, Law, People, Postwar Conflict (>1783), Postwar Politics (>1783) February 14, 2023 February 14, 2023

Captain Luke Day: A Forgotten Leader of “Shays’s Rebellion”

While Daniel Shays (1747-1825) has basked posthumously in the glory of leading the 1786-87 populist rebellion that bears his name, Luke Day (1743-1801) was…

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Constitutional Debate, Critical Thinking, Economics, Postwar Politics (>1783) July 14, 2022 July 26, 2022

Insurrection and Speculation: A Farmer, Financier, and a Surprising “Sharper” Seeded the Constitution

The January 6, 2021 assault on the Capital rocked America, but it was by no means the largest, or even the most threatening, armed…

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Autobiography and Biography, Politics During the War (1775-1783), The War Years (1775-1783) March 8, 2022 March 7, 2022

Jonathan Trumbull: the Sixteenth “Pope” of Connecticut

In 1817, as popular sentiment finally forced Connecticut to adopt a new constitution separating church and state, Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams: “I…

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People, Prewar Conflict (<1775), The War Years (1775-1783) November 23, 2021 November 21, 2021

Major Robert Rogers and the American Revolution

After his exploits during the French and Indian War, Robert Rogers (1732-1795) was indisputably the most famous military leader born in the thirteen colonies;…

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Culture, Historic Sites, People, Preservation May 17, 2021 May 16, 2021

William Tryon and the Park that Still Bears His Name

Fort Tryon Park, sixty-seven acres just north of the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan, is a bucolic refuge among the skyscrapers of New York…

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