Vol. 120, No. 1, October 2025

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

From the Stacks

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

News in Brief

Cover Description

Stacking Hay, by Douglas Reid Hansen. Oil on canvas on board, c. 1941. [Jim Rogers Collection, 2025.0017.032]