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History Matters: Nikola Tesla

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A photograph of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) at age 40 (circa 1896)
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Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

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 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.”