History Matters: Industrial Revolution

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.

Published February 19, 2019 at 6:35 AM CST

A Spinning Jenny, spinning machine which initiated the Industrial Revolution, model at the Museum of Early Industrialisation in Wuppertal (Germany).

Airs Tuesday, February 19, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Gary Joiner looks at the social upheaval and economic transformations which came with the Industrial Revolution.

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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