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History Matters: A Nation of Immigrants

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published September 11, 2018 at 7:45 AM CDT
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Immigrants including the Bombardelli family from Italy, entering the United States through Ellis Island, the main immigrant entry facility of the United States from 1892 to 1954.
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Dr. Gary Joiner
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Airs Tuesday, September 11, 2018, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Gary Joiner looks back at the immigrant history of America and why it matters.

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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