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History Matters: Industrial Revolution

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published January 10, 2017 at 7:45 AM CST
From The Story of Leeds by J. S. Fletcher, available from the Internet Archive
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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less.
Drawing of Marshall's Mills, Holbeck showing operators at their machines. From the Penny Magazine Supplement, December 1843 "A Day at a Leeds Flax Mill".

Dr. Gary Joiner
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Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, January 10, 2017, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Gary Joiner travels back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution

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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