The Missouri Historical Review, an award-winning scholarly quarterly, has served as the cornerstone of SHSMO's publication program since 1906. This richly illustrated journal features current scholarship on all facets of the state's history. The Missouri Historical Review also contains reviews of and notes on recently published books about the history of the state and local areas and the lives of Missourians.
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Issues
Current Issue
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Vol. 119, No. 2, January 2025
Feature Articles
- The Missouri Scenic Rivers System and the Origins of the Property Rights Movement, by Brooks Blevins
- Journal of a Bombing Mission: B-24 “Blue D,” Italy 1945, by Charles R. Mayes, Part 2, with an Epilogue by Daniel A. Crews, annotated by Daniel A. Crews, Kimberly Harper, and John Brenner
- “That's the Pioneer Spirit We Inherited”: The Herschends, the Ozarks, and the Rise of Silver Dollar City, an interview with Peter Herschend by Senator Roy Blunt
From the Stacks
Research Center–Kansas City
- Establishing the Jewish Education Council, 1966–1968, by Bridget D. Haney
Book Reviews
- Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis, by Patricia Cleary
Reviewed by Kathleen DuVal - New Fields of Adventure: The Writings of Lyman G. Bennett, Civil War Soldier and Topographical Engineer, 1861–1865, by Lyman G. Bennett, edited by M. Jane Johansson
Reviewed by Carl J. Moneyhon - Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads, by Kitty Ledbetter and Scott Foster Siman
Reviewed by Mark Guarino - Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition, by Mark Walczynski
Reviewed by Paul W. Mapp - The Origins of Missouri English: A Historical Sociophonetic Analysis, by Christopher Strelluf and Matthew J. Gordon
Reviewed by Mary Kohn - Come Fly with Me: The Rise and Fall of Trans World Airlines, by Daniel Rust and Alan B. Hoffman
Reviewed by M. Houston Johnson V - Building a House Divided: Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War, by Stephen G. Hyslop
Reviewed by Michael Todd Landis - Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery, by Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer
Reviewed by Matthew E. Stanley
Book Notes
- Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland, by Kevin J. Koch
- The Jefferson City Civil Pilots: From Lincoln University to Tuskegee Airmen, by Michelle Brooks
- Respectable Roughnecks: The True Story of a Forgotten Champion, by Brendon Steenbergen, Foreword by Gary Pinkel
- When Grandpa Delivered Babies and Other Ozarks Vignettes, by Benjamin G. Rader
- The Shooter at Midnight: Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided, by Sean Patrick Cooper
- Ste. Genevieve, Missouri: A Walk through History, by Valerie Battle Kienzle, Foreword by Bill Hart
News in Brief
Cover Description
Fishing on Indian Creek near McNatt, Missouri, early 1900s. [Lynn Morrow Papers, R1000]
Recent Issues
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Vol. 119, No. 1, October 2024
Feature Articles
- Journal of a Bombing Mission: B-24 “Blue D,” Italy 1945, by Charles R. Mayes, Part 1, with an Introduction by Daniel A. Crews, annotated by Daniel A. Crews, Kimberly Harper, and John Brenner
- “Neosho Stands by the Horse”: The Great Hitchrack War of 1900–1928, by Kimberly Harper
- Stumbling Blocks: White St. Louisans and the Failure of School Integration Reform in 1963, by Rob Good
From the Stacks
Research Center–St. Louis
- Assassinations, UFOs, and the Octopus: The World of Kenn Thomas, by A. J. Medlock
Book Reviews
- Native Nations: A Millenium in North America, by Kathleen DuVal
Reviewed by Katrina M. Phillips - Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America, by Kimberly Harper
Reviewed by Susan Curtis - Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant, by John Reeves
Reviewed by Pamela Sanfilippo - Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize, by Jerry Grillo
Reviewed by Kent Krause - Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods, by Sarah Neidhardt
Reviewed by Jinny Turman - Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World, by David L. Roll
Reviewed by Robert P. Watson
Book Notes
- Abandoned Ozarks: Southwest Missouri–Preserving the Past, by Robert McCormick
- Picked Clean: Civil War in and around Cedar County, Missouri, by John C. Beydler
- Black St. Louis: 1764 to the New Millenium, by Calvin Riley and Nini Harris
- Early Doctors and Hospitals of the Ozarks, by Michael Duff
- Loving the Homeplace: Tales beyond the Levee, by Mary Sue Anton
- Missouri: Where the Rivers Run, by Robert E. Hulsey
News in Brief
Cover Description
Young Black Woman, Young Black Man, by Algert T. Peterson, early 1900s. Peterson owned a photography studio in Lafayette County, Missouri, that he sold in 1927 to Leonard D. Rehkop. [Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs, C3888]
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Vol. 118, No. 4, July 2024
Feature Articles
- Lorenzo J. Greene’s Midwest Journal: “The Place to Get Something Substantial Published,” by Gary R. Kremer and Andrew Olden
- “We Have the Grain, the Meat, the Sugar”: St. Louis’s Patriotic Food Show, February 1918, by Benjamin Moore
- Colonial St. Louis: French, Spanish, Illinoisan, by Carl J. Ekberg
From the Stacks
Research Center–Columbia
- The Long Lost Friend: Traditional German Folk Remedies in the Floyd Calvin Shoemaker Collection, by Heather Richmond
Book Reviews
- A Man by Any Other Name: William Clarke Quantrill and the Search for American Manhood, by Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
Reviewed by James J. Broomall - Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction, by Fergus M. Bordewich
Reviewed by Dennis K. Boman - Kansas City’s Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home, by Margie Carr
Reviewed by Jason Roe - Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class, by Max Fraser
Reviewed by Thomas Kiffmeyer - Theatre on the American Frontier, by Thomas A. Bogar
Reviewed by Matthew Mancini - The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929, by Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan
Reviewed by James W. Endersby
Book Notes
- Prelude to a Century: The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, by Will Grant
- Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin’ Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback, by Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd
- 100 Things to Do on Route 66 Before You Die, Second Edition, by Jim Hinckley
- Celebrate the History of Wildwood, Missouri, by Wildwood Historic Preservation Commission/Jill F. VonGruben
- Enslavement and the Underground Railroad in Missouri and Illinois, by Julie D. Nicolai
- An Outstate Missouri Family Connects with Canada’s Capital: A Memoir of 1953, by Michael D. Sublett
News in Brief
Index to Volume 118
Cover Description
Richard “Dick” Royston and Elsie Hendrix pumping water from the cistern at her home in southern Howard County, early 1950s. [Burford Leon Royston Collection, CA6685]
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Vol. 118, No. 3, April 2024
Feature Articles
- “Protection for All Citizens”: Civil Defense and the Problem of Evacuating Missouri’s Urban Centers during the Cold War, 1950–1970, by Jenny Barker-Devine
- Major Wilson, Major Wolf, and Union Retaliation in Civil War St. Louis, by Brooks Blevins
- “The Greatest Barbecue Man in the World”: Reexamining Henry Perry, Kansas City’s Barbecue King, by Michael Sweeney
From the Stacks
Research Center–Rolla
- Snapshots of the Past: The John F. Bradbury Postcard Collection, by Kathleen Seale
Book Reviews
- Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present, by Greg Olson
Reviewed by John Gram - The Missouri Home Guard: Protecting the Home Front during the Great War, by Petra DeWitt
Reviewed by Richard S. Faulkner - The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is–And Isn’t, by Steven Conn
Reviewed by Doug Genens - Fighting for a Free Missouri: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Issue of Slavery, edited by Sydney J. Norton
Reviewed by Luke Ritter - Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton, by Susan Croce Kelly
Reviewed by Kimberly Voss - Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War, by Matthew Christopher Hulbert
Reviewed by Christopher Grasso
Book Notes
- The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey into the Old West, by Will Grant
- Gravity: Selected Letters of Olivia Langdon Clemens, edited by Barbara E. Snedecor
- Walking South City: A Journey through Historic St. Louis Neighborhoods, by Jim Merkel
- Farm Girl Takes Flight: A Flight Attendant's Journey through Faith, Art, and Life, by Elaine Hayob Bankston
- Family Reins: The Heartbreaking Fall of an American Dynasty, by Billy Busch
Graduate Theses Relating to Missouri History, 2023
News in Brief
Cover Description
Newman Cox, farmer and World War I veteran, 1953. Cox was one of many subjects that Burford Leon Royston photographed along his route as a mail carrier in Howard County, Missouri, from the 1950s to the 1970s. [Burford Leon Royston Collection, CA6685]
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Editorial Information
Article Awards
Missouri Historical Review Article Award
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James W. Goodrich and Lynn Wolf Gentzler Missouri Historical Review Article Award
The James W. Goodrich and Lynn Wolf Gentzler Missouri Historical Review Article Award is presented annually to the author of the article best contributing to an understanding of Missouri history published in the most recent volume of the journal.
Mary C. Neth Prize
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Mary C. Neth Prize
The Mary C. Neth Prize, created in memory of a professor in the University of Missouri–Columbia Department of History who specialized in women’s history, is given biennially (in odd–numbered years) to the author of the best article on women or gender issues appearing in the preceding two volumes of the Missouri Historical Review.