reviews, and five books. His A History of Louisiana was used as a college textbook for two decades. Another popular work is Louisiana Redeemed: The Overthrow of Carpetbag Rule, 1876–1880, a 1941 study of the Reconstruction era, which ends with the triumph of the Redeemers, the southern Democrats who defeated the Radical Republican administrations across the South. McGinty was listed in Who's Who in Education, The Dictionary of International Scholars, and Men of Achievement. On July 15, 1932, McGinty married the former Zoé Heard (1902–1976) of Ruston. The couple had no children. McGinty had a brother, Thomas Guice McGinty (1893-1983) of Sibley, a state government employee who twice ran for sheriff of his adopted Webster Parish. McGinty was a brother-in-law of Charles Raymond Heard (1896-1963), a prominent wholesale grocer in Ruston who served on the Louisiana State Board of Education prior to 1960, when he was unseated in the Democratic primary election by later U.S. Representative Joe Waggonner of Louisiana's 4th congressional district. Works References External links Garnie William McGinty at Find-a-Grave 1900 births 1984 deaths Historians of Louisiana Educators from Louisiana Educators from Kentucky Educators from Alabama American non-fiction writers People from Ringgold, Louisiana People from Ruston, Louisiana Northwestern State University alumni Peabody College alumni University of Texas at Austin alumni Louisiana Tech University faculty University of Montevallo faculty Western Kentucky University faculty Northwestern State University faculty People from Natchitoches, Louisiana United States Army personnel of World War I Presidents of Louisiana Tech University American school principals Writers from Bowling Green, Kentucky 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers Historians from Louisiana 20th-century American male writers