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]