History Matters: Glass

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.

Published November 29, 2016 at 12:21 PM CST

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vitrail-Passion.jpg — Windows in the choir of the Basilica of Saint Denis, one of the earliest uses of extensive areas of glass.

Airs Tuesday, November 29, at 7:45 a.m. Commentator Gary Joiner discusses the history of one of our most common man made materials.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.

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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.

Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”

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