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History Matters: The Battle of Marathon

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published May 28, 2019 at 7:45 AM CDT
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A reconstruction of beached Persian ships at Marathon, prior to the battle.
U.S. government
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, May 28, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. Commentator Gary Joiner looks back at the Persian Empire's defeat at The Battle of Marathon, and why this history matters.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.

Persian: The Picture of Darius the Great in the role of Dariush. Discovered in Persepolis. Available at the Museum of Ancient Iran
Credit Darafsh Kaviyani / This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

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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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