Airs Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Dr. Gary Joiner looks at Dr. Grady McWhiney and his book Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South.
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.”