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History Matters: Dust Bowl

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published January 15, 2019 at 6:45 AM CST
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Migrant Mother: Portrait shows Florence Thompson with several of her children in a photograph known as "Migrant Mother". The Library of Congress caption reads: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children.
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Airs Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at 7:45 a.m. Commentator Gary Joiner looks back at the dust bowl of the 1930's and why it's history matters.
 
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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