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History Matters: The Pilgrims & Indians

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"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" (1914) By Jennie A. Brownscombe
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, November 21, 2017, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Gary Joiner travels back New England and the historic events behind Thanksgiving.

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.”