Feature Articles
- Benjamin F. Loan: Radical Generalship in Civil War Missouri, by Thomas A. Jones
- “The Very Depths of Hatred and Bitterness”: The 1968 University of Missouri–Rolla and Southwest Missouri State College Basketball Melee, by Larry Gragg
- Faith, Family, Missouri Small-Town Values, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit, An Interview with David Steward by Gary R. Kremer
From the Stacks
Research Center–Columbia
- Records of Indigenous Enslavement in the Ste. Genevieve Archives, by Emily Peebles and John Craig Hammond
Book Reviews
- Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion, by Elliott West
Reviewed by Amy Kohout - Slavery, Religion, and Race in Antebellum Missouri: Freedom from Slavery and Freedom from Sin, by Kevin D. Butler
Reviewed by John Patrick Daly - Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900, by R. Douglas Hurt
Reviewed by David D. Vail - Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s, edited by Amanda L. Izzo and Benjamin Looker
Reviewed by Gregg L. Michel - Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story, by D. M. Giangreco
Reviewed by Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C. - The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration, by Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld
Reviewed by Bryan Jack
Book Notes
- The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two, by Steve Drummond
- A. A. Fischer’s St. Louis Landscapes, by Nancy Moore Hamilton
- Sunny Jim Bottomley: A Biography of a Hall of Fame First Baseman, by Kent Krause
- Great Plains Forts, by Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes
- Images of America: Route 66 St. Louis Style, by Joe Sonderman
- Half the Town Burned: The Great Wooldridge Fire of 2022, by Tim Scherrer
News in Brief
Cover Description
Margarete E. “Ma” Boon standing by Boon’s Store and Post Office, Franklin, Missouri, 1952. Photo by Burford Leon Royston. [Burford Leon Royston Collection, CA6685]