Feature Articles
- The Missouri Scenic Rivers System and the Origins of the Property Rights Movement, by Brooks Blevins
- Journal of a Bombing Mission: B-24 “Blue D,” Italy 1945, by Charles R. Mayes, Part 2, with an Epilogue by Daniel A. Crews, annotated by Daniel A. Crews, Kimberly Harper, and John Brenner
- “That's the Pioneer Spirit We Inherited”: The Herschends, the Ozarks, and the Rise of Silver Dollar City, an interview with Peter Herschend by Senator Roy Blunt
From the Stacks
Research Center–Kansas City
- Establishing the Jewish Education Council, 1966–1968, by Bridget D. Haney
Book Reviews
- Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis, by Patricia Cleary
Reviewed by Kathleen DuVal - New Fields of Adventure: The Writings of Lyman G. Bennett, Civil War Soldier and Topographical Engineer, 1861–1865, by Lyman G. Bennett, edited by M. Jane Johansson
Reviewed by Carl J. Moneyhon - Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads, by Kitty Ledbetter and Scott Foster Siman
Reviewed by Mark Guarino - Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition, by Mark Walczynski
Reviewed by Paul W. Mapp - The Origins of Missouri English: A Historical Sociophonetic Analysis, by Christopher Strelluf and Matthew J. Gordon
Reviewed by Mary Kohn - Come Fly with Me: The Rise and Fall of Trans World Airlines, by Daniel Rust and Alan B. Hoffman
Reviewed by M. Houston Johnson V - Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War, by Stephen G. Hyslop
Reviewed by Michael Todd Landis - Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery, by Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer
Reviewed by Matthew E. Stanley
Book Notes
- Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland, by Kevin J. Koch
- The Jefferson City Civil Pilots: From Lincoln University to Tuskegee Airmen, by Michelle Brooks
- Respectable Roughnecks: The True Story of a Forgotten Champion, by Brendon Steenbergen, Foreword by Gary Pinkel
- When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes, by Benjamin G. Rader
- The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided, by Sean Patrick Cooper
- Ste. Genevieve, Missouri: A Walk through History, by Valerie Battle Kienzle, Foreword by Bill Hart
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Cover Description
Fishing on Indian Creek near McNatt, Missouri, early 1900s. [Lynn Morrow Papers, R1000]