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History Matters: Political Parties

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Electoral program of 1912 - US Progressist Party
US Progressist Party
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, January 28, 2020, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Gary Joiner looks bak at the history of political parties in America and the influences they have had on our Government.

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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.”