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History Matters: The Lost Generation

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Depicts a scene in the rear area of I Anzac Corps during the winter of 1916-17, towards the end of the Battle of the Somme.
Australian War Memorial catalogue number ART02158
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, January 30, 2018, at 7:45 p.m. Commentator Gary Joiner recounts the term Lost Generation and uses it to discuss the generation of youth lost during WWI.

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.”