Vol. 119, No. 4, July 2025

Feature Articles

  • Mathias Splitlog: Missouri's Indigenous Industrialist, by Greg Olson
  • Favoring Neither North nor South: Missouri Neutralists and the 1861 Secession Crisis, by Thomas R. Baker
  • Protest in the Heartland: The Spring 1968 Incident at Southeast Missouri State College, by Joe P. Dunn

From the Stacks

Research Center–Kansas City

  • The Congressional Papers of William J. "Bill" Randall, by Syd Stoll

Book Reviews

  • Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853–1920, by Gregg Andrews
    Reviewed by Chad Pearson
  • Little Helpers: Harry Vaughan, His Cronies, and Corruption in the Truman Administration, by John Robert Greene
    Reviewed by Steven Wagner
  • Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA, by Patty Heyda
    Reviewed by Colin Gordon
  • Mob Rule in the Ozarks: The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Strike, 1921–1923, by Kenneth C. Barnes
    Reviewed by Jon Huibregste
  • A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs, by Crystal R. Sanders
    Reviewed by Stephanie Y. Evans

Book Notes

  • The Girardeaus: An Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Family in Upper Louisiana, by Charlotte Young Slinkard
  • Disaster at 39,000 Feet: How Small-Town America Came Together at a Time of Crisis, by Enfys McMurry
  • Humans of St. Louis: The People of St. Louis, One Photo and Story at a Time, by Lindy Drew and Dessa Somerside
  • Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling, by Jon Langmead
  • Forged in Fire: Grief, Purpose, and Devotion of a Woman at War, by Robert L. Gangwere
  • Lutherans of Cole County, Missouri: A History, by Jeremy P. Ämick

News in Brief

Cover Description

Riding the Comet roller coaster at Forest Park Highlands Amusement Park, St. Louis, circa 1941. [Arthur Witman Photograph Collection, S0733]