Vol. 119, No. 1, October 2024

Feature Articles

  • Journal of a Bombing Mission: B-24 “Blue D,” Italy 1945, by Charles R. Mayes, Part 1, with an introduction by Daniel A. Crews, annotated by Daniel A. Crews, Kimberly Harper, and John Brenner 
  • “Neosho Stands by the Horse”: The Great Hitchrack War of 19001928, by Kimberly Harper
  • Stumbling Blocks: White St. Louisans and the Failure of School Integration Reform in 1963, by Rob Good

From the Stacks

Research Center–St. Louis

  • Assassinations, UFOs, and the Octopus: The World of Kenn Thomas, by A. J. Medlock

Book Reviews

  • Native Nations: A Millenium in North America, by Kathleen DuVal
    Reviewed by Katrina M. Phillips
  • Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America, by Kimberly Harper
    Reviewed by Susan Curtis
  • Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant, by John Reeves
    Reviewed by Pamela Sanfilippo
  • Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize, by Jerry Grillo
    Reviewed by Kent Krause
  • Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods, by Sarah Neidhardt
    Reviewed by Jinny Turman
  • Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World, by David L. Roll
    Reviewed by Robert P. Watson

Book Notes

  • Abandoned Ozarks: Southwest Missouri–Preserving the Past, by Robert McCormick
  • Picked Clean: Civil War in and around Cedar County, Missouri, by John C. Beydler
  • Black St. Louis: 1764 to the New Millenium, by Calvin Riley and Nini Harris
  • Early Doctors and Hospitals of the Ozarks, by Michael Duff
  • Loving the Homeplace: Tales beyond the Levee, by Mary Sue Anton
  • Missouri: Where the Rivers Run, by Robert E. Hulsey

News in Brief

Cover Description

Young Black Woman, Young Black Man, by Algert T. Peterson, early 1900s. Peterson owned a photography studio in Lafayette County, Missouri, that he sold in 1927 to Leonard D. Rehkop. [Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs, C3888]