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History Matters: Prohibition

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published August 13, 2019 at 7:45 AM CDT
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The Drunkard's Progress -- moderate drinking leads to drunkenness and disaster
A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, 1846
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, August 13, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Dr. Gary Joiner looks back at a grand attempt to legislate morals in American, the Volstead Act or prohibition, and the lessons we learned from its failure.

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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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