Vol. 121, No. 1, October 2026

Feature Articles

  • The St. Louis Love Affair with Lafayette, by Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. 
  • "The Days of Frémont are gone and with them the good standing of the Germans": Frémont's Removal and Ethnic Tensions among Union Soldiers in Missouri During the Fall of 1861, by John Sarvela
  • Flat Land, Racial Voting Patterns, and Industrial Property Taxes: Factors Shaping Florissant, Missouri's Schools, 1949-1960, by Daniel L. Willett

From the Stacks

Research Center–Columbia

  • The Jaycees: Carrying the Torch for Grassroots Conservatism, by A. J. Medlock

Book Reviews

  • Canfield Drive: A History of Race and the American City on a Street in St. Louis, by Matthew Knox Averett
    Reviewed by Amanda L. Izzo
  • Fish Cars and Fish Culture: Railroads and Sport Fishing in America, by R. W. Hafer
    Reviewed by Buckley T. Foster
  • This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark, by Craig Fehrman
    Reviewed by Jay H. Buckley
  • Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail, by Frances Levine
    Reviewed by Molly P. Rozum
  • Border War: A Yankee Family in Civil War Missouri, by Marilyn Ferris Motz
    Reviewed by Matthew M. Stith

Book Notes

  • Sweet, Tart & Golden: Apples in the Midwestern Imagination, by Lucy M. Long
  • Aprons Away: Women's Work on Route 66, by Cheryl Eichar Jett
  • Native American Monuments of Missouri: A History and Guide, by Neal W. Fandek
  • Beyond the Moreau: A Historical Journey Through Mid-Missouri, by Jeremy Paul Ämick
  • Ulysses & Julia Grant's Missouri Love Story, by Vicki Berger Erwin and James W. Erwin
  • Gangster Queen Bonnie Parker and Other Murderous Women of Missouri, by Larry Wood

News in Brief

Cover Description

Oct '15 Fall Landscape, by Michael Carmicheal Carr (1881-1929). Oil on canvas, Jim Rogers Collection.