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History Matters: The Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published August 7, 2018 at 2:10 PM CDT
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The Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits
Dr. Gary Joiner
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Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, August 7, 2018, at 7:45 p.m. Dr. Gary Joiner looks at the ancient waterways of the Dardanelles and Bosporus Straits, and the role they've played in history that 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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