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.”
Joiner was appointed chairman of Louisiana's Civil War Sesquicentennial Task Force and also serves on the Battle of New Orleans Bicentennial Commission.
Joiner’s commentaries air Tuesdays at 7:35 a.m. He explores a wide range of historical topics, and is currently working on a book compilation of his Red River Radio commentaries.
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Commentator Gary Joiner traces immigration to the U.S., and areas of Louisiana, beginning in the 1500s.
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Commentator Gary Joiner visited the Saunders Museum in Berryville, Arkansas as a 4-year-old and it made a powerful impression on him. Revisiting the...
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Shreveport's Booker T. Washington High School has achieved an important distinction. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July....
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Commentator Gary Joiner explores how terroristic acts are ingrained in the timeline of world history, but are at times debatable depending on whom you...
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Commentator Gary Joiner discusses the lasting impact of the Works Progress Administration close to home in Natchitoches and Shreveport, and farther...
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Commentator Gary Joiner pens homage to the Army Air Forces 4th Fighter Group. Growing up in the 1950s, his passion for historical research was born out...
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Shreveport business entrepreneur Mary Bennett Cane was born 203 years ago this week in New Hampshire. Commentator Gary Joiner recognizes her influence...
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Commentator Gary Joiner presents a profile of U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets Jr. whose aircraft dropped the first atomic bomb in the history of...
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The world's largest diamond producer De Beers cut its output this year for a second time as demand for the gems weaken amid a supply glut. Commentator...
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Commentator Gary Joiner profiles a Haitian-born New Orleanian, the so-called “corsair of the Gulf,” who masterminded successful smuggling operations in...