Feature Articles
- The Evolution of a Historian, by Joel P. Rhodes
- "That Man Curtis": The Last Days of General Samuel R. Curtis's Missouri Command, by Thomas A. Jones
- John C. Bush's Book of Travels: The Expedition Up the Missouri River, 1819–1820. Part 1: Shippingport, Kentucky, to Fort Osage, Missouri Territory, edited and annotated by Kimberly Harper and John Brenner
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Research Center–Cape Girardeau
- The Deering (Mo.) Photograph Collection, 1934–1935, by Bill Eddleman
Book Reviews
- A Union Tested: The Civil War Letters of Cimbaline and Henry Fike, edited by Jeremy Neely
Reviewed by Rebecca Howard - The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime, by Sara Fitzgerald
Reviewed by Frances Dickey - Lincoln's Conservative Advisor: Attorney General Edward Bates, by Mark A. Neels
Reviewed by Brian Dirck - Catching Hell from All Quarters: Anti-Klan Activists in Interwar Missouri, by Sean Rost
Reviewed by Felix Harcourt - An Environmental Journey: Tales of Tragedy and Hope from the Heartland, by Loring Bullard
Reviewed by Neall W. Pogue - There Is No Humor in Heaven: Mark Twain and Religious Liberalism, by Dwayne E. Eutsey
Reviewed by Steve Wiegenstein
Book Notes
- George Graham Vest: The Life and Times of Dog's Best Friend, by Stephen M. Vest
- Sharing the Love of Gardening: The History of the Westport Garden Club, by Kristie C. Wolferman
- Union Guerrillas of Civil War Kansas: Jayhawkers and Red Legs, by Paul A. Thomas and Matt M. Matthews
- Mapping St. Louis: A History of the Gateway City in 40 Rare Maps, by Andrew W. Hahn
- Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend, by Michael Wallis
- Runnin' Redbirds: The World Champion 1982 St. Louis Cardinals, by Eric Vickrey
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Stacking Hay, by Douglas Reid Hansen. Oil on canvas on board, c. 1941. [Jim Rogers Collection, 2025.0017.032]