History Matters: Sacred Soil

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

Published May 7, 2019 at 7:45 AM CDT

View of Tell Barri (northeast Syria) from the west. Note the sheep in the front of the tell for scale

Airs Tuesday, May 7, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Dr. Gary Joiner takes us through the concept and relationship of sacred soil with the souls who live on it.

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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