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History Matters: Nikola Tesla

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published December 27, 2016 at 7:45 AM CST
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Airs Tuesday, December 27, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Gary Joiner takes a look back at the genius of Nikola Tesla.

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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