Feature Articles
- Snake County Sojourn: McDonald County, Joplin, and the Birth of the Ozarks Playground Association, by Kimberly Harper
- The Americanization of an Italian War Bride in Missouri: Liliana Maria Palmigiani, 1946-2015, by Larry Gragg
- The Strange Career of Collective Bargaining for Missouri Teachers, by Doug Genens
From the Stacks
Research Center–Columbia
- The Limits of Interpretation: Rediscovering the Original Context of Thomas Hart Benton's World War II Image of an African American Soldier, by Joan Stack
Book Reviews
- Mark Twain, by Ron Chernow
Reviewed by Bruce Michelson - Guns, Furs, and Gold: An American West History of Indigenous People and Explorers, by Larry E. Morris
Reviewed by John R. Legg - Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America, by Joanna Dee Das
Reviewed by Anthony Harkins - Interstate '85: The Royals, the Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series by Marshall Garvey
Reviewed by Todd Cleveland - The Devil's Own Purgatory: The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War, by Robert Gudmestad
Reviewed by Steven J. Ramold - The Day They Hung Old Brown: The Making of Celebrity and Martyrdom in the Civil War Era, by John R. Van Atta
Reviewed by Amy Laurel Fluker
Book Notes
- Historic Jefferson City Hotels, by Michelle Brooks
- Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River, by Lisa G. Dill
- Jefferson's Spy: Volume I, The Secret Life of Meriwether Lewis, by Tony L. Turnbow
- Route 66 Recipes: A Culinary Cruise along the Mother Road, by Amy Bizzarri
- Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal Biography, edited by Gary Scharnhorst
- Decisions on Western Waters: The Twenty-Seven Critical Decisions that Defined the Operations, by Michael D. Becker
Index to Volume 120
News in Brief
Cover Description
Laundry, by Frank Huntington Stack (1937-2026). Oil on canvas, gift of the artist.