Vol. 120, No. 3, April 2026

Feature Articles

  • My Summer of 1921, by Lloyd Gregory, edited and annotated by Robert L. Gangwere
  • Safe at the College? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic and the Students' Army Training Corps at the University of Missouri, by Carolyn Orbann, Erin Walton, and Devanshi Patel
  • The Battle to End the "Aces" System and Reform the St. Louis Police Department, by Charles E. Valier

From the Stacks

Research Center–Columbia

  • Congressional Papers Document Contamination Legacy in St. Louis, by Laura R. Jolley

Book Reviews

  • Buildings of Missouri, by Osmund Overby, Carol Grove, and Cole Woodcox
    Reviewed by Eric P. Mumford
  • Missouri Railroads: A Modern Crossroads, 1921–2023, by Don L. Hofsommer and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
    Reviewed by Simon Cordery
  • Richmond Views the West: Politics and Perceptions in the Confederate Capital, by Larry J. Daniel
    Reviewed by Gaines M. Foster
  • We Were Still Ladies: Gender and Industrial Unionism in the Midwest after World War II, by Coreen Derifield
    Reviewed by Kristine Stilwell
  • Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books, by Pamela Smith Hill
    Reviewed by Miranda A. Green-Barteet

Book Notes

  • Trails Across Missouri: The Katy and Rock Island, by Dan Burkhardt
  • The Mills and Springs of the Ozarks: Places and History of the Mill Era, by Richard McGee
  • Cabin Fever: Life and Times on the Missouri River, by Kristen Heitkamp
  • Andrew Henry: The Myth . . . The Man, by Mark William Kelly
  • The Way We Were, Part 2: Personal Reflections on Life in the Ozarks, by Lonnie Whitaker
  • The Team that History Forgot: The 1960s Kansas City Chiefs, by Rick Gosselin, Foreword by Andy Reid

Graduate Theses Relating to Missouri History, 2025

News in Brief

Cover Description

Blackbird Flying through Dust Devils, by Lee Becker (b. 1937). Pastel and watercolor on paper, undated. [Jim Rogers Collection, State Historical Society of Missouri]