Articles from Missouri Historical Review and Missouri Times
- Alexander, Henry M. "The City Manager Plan in Kansas City."
Missouri Historical Review 34 (January 1940): 145-156. - Anderson, Hattie "The Jackson Men in Missouri in 1828."
Missouri Historical Review 34 (April 1940): 301-334. - Barclay, Thomas S. "The Kansas City Charter of 1875."
Missouri Historical Review 26 (October 1931): 19-39.
"The Liberal Republican Movement in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 20 (October 1925): 3-78. - Bradford, Priscilla "The Missouri Constitutional Controversy of 1845."
Missouri Historical Review 32 (October 1937): 35-55. - Bradshaw, William L. "History of the Missouri County Court."
Missouri Historical Review 25 (April 1931): 387-403. - Broadhead, G. C. "The Location of the Capital of Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 2 (January 1908): 158-163. - Clark, Champ "Missourians and the Nation during the Last Century."
Missouri Historical Review 15 (April 1921): 433-448. - Clevenger, Homer "Railroads in Missouri Politics, 1875-1887."
Missouri Historical Review 43 (April 1949): 220-236. - Crisler, Robert M. "Republican Areas in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 42 (July 1948): 299-309. - Crockett, Norman L. "The 1912 Single Tax Campaign in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 56 (October 1961): 40-52. - DeArmond, Fred "Reconstruction in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 61 (April 1967): 364-377. - Garrison, Milton "History of Township Organization in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 30 (October 1935): 47-56. - Grant, Philip A., Jr. "The Presidential Election of 1940 in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 83 (October 1988): 1-16. - Guese, Lucius E. "St. Louis and the Great Whiskey Ring."
Missouri Historical Review 36 (January 1942): 160-183. - Hahn, Harlan "The Republican Party Convention of 1912 and the Role of Herbert S. Hadley in National Politics."
Missouri Historical Review 59 (July 1965): 407-423. - Harvey, Charles M. "Missouri from 1849 to 1861."
Missouri Historical Review 2 (October 1907): 21-38. - Hockett, Prof. H. C. "Rufus King and the Missouri Compromise."
Missouri Historical Review 2 (April 1908): 211-220. - Hodder, Frank H. "Side Lights on the Missouri Compromise."
Missouri Historical Review 5 (April 1911): 138-149. - Houghton, N. D. "The Initiative and Referendum in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 19 (January 1925): 268-299. - Kirkpatrick, Arthur R. "Missouri on the Eve of the Civil War."
Missouri Historical Review 55 (January 1961): 99-108. - Lander, Byron G. "Missouri and the Presidential Election of 1828."
Missouri Historical Review 71 (July 1977): 419-435. - Larsen, Lawrence H., and Nancy J. Hulston "Criminal Aspects of the Pendergast Machine."
Missouri Historical Review 91 (January 1997): 168-180. - Larsen, Lawrence H. "A Political Boss at Bay: Thomas J. Pendergast in Federal Prison, 1939-1940."
Missouri Historical Review 86 (July 1992): 396-417. - Laughlin, Sceva Bright "Missouri Politics during the Civil War."
Missouri Historical Review 24 (October 1929): 87-113. - Lee, Arthur E. "The Decline of Radicalism and Its Effect on Public Education in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 74 (October 1979): 1-20. - Lee, Bill R. "Missouri's Fight over Emancipation in 1863."
Missouri Historical Review 45 (April 1951): 256-274. - Lehmann, F. W. "The Constitution of 1820."
Missouri Historical Review 16 (January 1922): 239-246. - Lightfoot, Alfred "Henry Clay and the Missouri Question."
Missouri Historical Review 61 (January 1967): 143-165. - Lightfoot, B. B. "Nobody's Nominee: Sample Orr and the Election of 1860."
Missouri Historical Review 60 (January 1966): 127-148. - Loeb, Isidor "Constitutions and Constitutional Conventions in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 16 (January 1922): 189-238.
"The Development of Missouri's State Administrative Organization."
Missouri Historical Review 23 (October 1928): 49-60. - Luthin, Reihard H. "Organizing the Republican Party in the "Border-Slave" Regions: Edward Bates's Presidential Candidacy in 1860."
Missouri Historical Review 38 (January 1944): 138-161. - Magers, Roy V. "An Early Missouri Political Feud."
Missouri Historical Review 23 (January 1929): 261-269. - March, David D. "Charles D. Drake and the Constitutional Convention of 1865."
Missouri Historical Review 47 (January 1953): 110-123. - McCandless, Perry "Benton v. Barton: The Formation of the Second-Party System in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 79 (July 1985): 425-438.
"The Significance of County Making in the Election of Thomas H. Benton."
Missouri Historical Review 53 (October 1958): 34-38. - McLear, Patrick "Gentlemen, Reach for All’: Toppling the Pendergast Machine, 1936-1940."
Missouri Historical Review 95 (October 2000): 46-67.
"Pendergast vs. Stark: Politics, Patronage, and the 1938 Supreme Court Democratic Primary.”"
Missouri Historical Review 96 (April 2002): 188-210. - McClure, C. H. "A Century of Missouri Politics."
Missouri Historical Review 15 (January 1921): 317-338. - McDougal, H. C. "A Decade of Missouri Politics - 1860 to 1870. From a Republican Viewpoint."
Missouri Historical Review 3 (January 1909): 126-153. - Miller, William T. "The Progressive Movement in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 22 (July 1928): 456-501. - Nelson, Jeffrey "The Rhetoric of the 1896 Republican National Convention at St. Louis."
Missouri Historical Review 77 (July 1983): 395-408. - Newhard, Leota "The Beginning of the Whig Party in Missouri, 1824-1840."
Missouri Historical Review 25 (January 1931): 254-280. - Ogilvie, Leon Parker "Populism and Socialism in the Southeast Missouri Lowlands."
Missouri Historical Review 65 (January 1971): 159-183. - Ohman, Marian M. "Missouri County Organization, 1812-1876."
Missouri Historical Review 76 (April 1982): 253-281. - Oliver, Robert Burett "History of the State Flag of Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 13 (April 1919): 226-231. - Paine, Christopher M. "The Platte Earth Controversy: What Didn't Happen in 1836."
Missouri Historical Review 91 (October 1996): 1-23. - Peterson, Norma L. "The Political Fluctuations of B. Gratz Brown: Politics in a Border State, 1850-1870."
Missouri Historical Review 51 (October 1956): 22-30. - Philips, John F. "Hamilton Rowan Gamble and the Provisional Government of Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 5 (October 1910): 1-14. - Pusateri, C. Joseph "Public Quarrels and Private Plans: The President, the Veterans, and the Mayor of St. Louis."
Missouri Historical Review 62 (October 1967): 1-13. - Rader, Perry S. "The Great Seal of the State of Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 23 (January 1929): 270-297.
"The Location of the Permanent Seat of Government."
Missouri Historical Review 21 (October 1926): 9-18. - Roach, Cornelius "Missouri's Eleven State Capitols."
Missouri Historical Review 7 (July 1913): 224-231. - Roed, William "Secessionist Strength in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 72 (July 1978): 412-423. - Selby, Paul O. "Missouri's 268 Congressmen, 1821-1960."
Missouri Historical Review 57 (April 1963): 285-290. - Schmandt, Henry J. "The Personnel of the 1943-1944 Missouri Constitutional Convention."
Missouri Historical Review 45 (April 1951): 235-251. - Schnell, J. Christopher "Missouri Progressives and the Nomination of F.D.R."
Missouri Historical Review 68 (April 1974): 269-279. - Shoemaker, Floyd C. "Fathers of the State."
Missouri Historical Review 10 (October 1915): 1-32.
"The First Constitution of Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 6 (January 1912): 51-63.
"Traditions Concerning the Missouri Question."
Missouri Historical Review 16 (January 1922): 253-262. - Snyder, J. F. "The Democratic State Convention of Missouri in 1860."
Missouri Historical Review 2 (January 1908): 112-130. - Soapes, Thomas F. "Barak Mattingly and the Failure of the Missouri Republicans."
Missouri Historical Review 87 (January 1993): 168-187. - Squires, Monas N. "A New View of the Election of Barton and Benton to the United States Senate in 1820."
Missouri Historical Review 27 (October 1932): 28-45. - Stevens, Walter B. "The Political Turmoil of 1874 in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 31 (October 1936): 3-9.
"The Travail of Missouri for Statehood."
Missouri Historical Review 15 (October 1920): 2-35. - Stewart, Byron "The Meeting of Two Bears: Grand Duke Alexis at the Missouri Legislature."
Missouri Historical Review 74 (January 1980): 166-189. - Switzler, W. F. "Constitutional Conventions of Missouri, 1865-1875."
Missouri Historical Review 1 (January 1907): 109-120. - Thomas, John L. "Some Historic Lines of Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 1 (October 1908): 5-33. - Thomas, Raymond D. "A Study in Missouri Politics, 1840-1870."
Missouri Historical Review 21 (January 1927): 166-184. - Thurman, A. L., Jr. "Ratification Speaking in Missouri in 1860."
Missouri Historical Review 56 (July 1962): 365-379. - Viles, Jonas "Missouri Capitals and Capitols."
Missouri Historical Review 13 (January 1919): 136-155. - Wallace, Doris Davis "The Political Campaign of 1860 in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 70 (January 1976): 162-183. - Wood, Barry Robert "’Holy Joe’ Folk's Crusade: The 1918 Election in Missouri."
Missouri Historical Review 71 (April 1977): 284-314. - Woolsey, Ronald C. "The Debate over Slavery on the Eve of the Charleston Convention."
Missouri Historical Review 82 (October 1987): 1-23. - Zornow, William Frank "The Missouri Radicals and the Election of 1864."
Missouri Historical Review 45 (July 1951): 354-370.
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