Vol. 120, No. 2, January 2026

Feature Articles

  • John C. Bush's Book of Travels: The Expedition Up the Missouri River, 1819–1820. Part 2: Fort Osage to Council Bluff, edited and annotated by Kimberly Harper and John Brenner
  • "It's Been a Hell of a Ride": An Interview with Gary Kremer by Senator Roy Blunt
  • African American Lives after the Civil War in Two Townships in Johnson County, Missouri, by B. Darrell Jackson

From the Stacks

Research Center–Rolla

  • Pioneer Doctor: William Hearst Bowles in Nineteenth-Century Maries County, by Ashley Weaver

Book Reviews

  • The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850, by Andrew Isenberg
    Reviewed by Peter Kastor
  • The Liberal Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest, edited by Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock
    Reviewed by Heidi Ardizzone
  • So Great Was the Slaughter: Market Hunters, Sportsmen, and Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas, by Buckley T. Foster
    Reviewed by Scott E. Giltner
  • Hope Never to See It: A Graphic History of Guerrilla Violence during the American Civil War, by Andrew Fialka and Anderson Carman
    Reviewed by G. David Schieffler
  • Baseball in the Roaring Twenties: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Captivating 1926 Season, by Thomas Wolf
    Reviewed by Mitchell Nathanson
  • Confluences: Religion, Health, and Diversity in Missouri, edited by Signe Cohen and Rabia Gregory
    Reviewed by Lucas Volkman

Book Notes

  • Summers at Cedar Grove: The Rise and Fall of an Ozark Village, by Ben Timson with Ruth Maxwell and Kathy Timson
  • Hannibal's Invisibles, by G. Faye Dant, Introduction by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
  • Hell's Half-Acre: Along Bartmer Avenue in St. Louis, Wellston, and University City, True Crime and Tragedy in the Most Notorious Spot of St. Louis County, by Andrew J. Theising
  • John Frémont's 100 Days: Clashes and Convictions in Civil War Missouri, by Gregory Wolk
  • True Tales of Wentzville: The Early Years, by Gerry Matlock, Lois Kessler, and Kathy Weindel

News in Brief

Cover Description

Landscape #14, by Carl Gentry. Watercolor, date unknown. [Carl Gentry Collection, 1975.0025]