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History Matters: Panic and Depression

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Crowd driven from Tompkins Square by the mounted police, in the Tompkins Square Riot of 1874.
Matt Morgen; Illustration in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1874 Jan. 31, p. 344.
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, February 6, 2018, at 7:45 p.m. Commentator Gary Joiner presents an economic history lesson, from our founding to the present.

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.”