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History Matters: The Legacy Of Huey Long

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published November 20, 2018 at 7:45 AM CST
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Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana, half-length portrait, standing, facing left, gesturing with both arms, as he speaks.
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c11008.
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, November 20, 2018, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Gary Joiner looks back the life and legacy of Huey Long and why his history 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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