Feature Articles
- In Memory of Lynn Wolf Gentzler, 1949–2020
- “A Handsome New Home”: Social Welfare Reform and Resistance in Rural Missouri, by Courtney L. Kisat
- “From the Hell’s Brew of Malice, Hatred, and Vindictiveness”: The 1906 Investigation of George E. Ladd, Director of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, by Larry Gragg
- Plague, Printers, and Politics: The St. Louis Whig Party and Nativism after the Cholera Epidemic and Fire of 1849, by Ian Brickey
From the Stacks
Research Center–St. Louis
- The Prison Ministry of the New Life Evangelistic Center, by A. J. Medlock
Book Reviews
- Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs, by Colin Gordon
Reviewed by David Lucander - Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West, by H. W. Brands
Reviewed by Roger L. Nichols - When Sunflowers Bloomed Red: Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America, by R. Alton Lee and Steven Cox
Reviewed by Michael Pierce - Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane, by Karen R. Jones
Reviewed by Rebecca Scofield - The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America’s Weirdest State, by Russell L. Cobb
Reviewed by Nigel Anthony Sellars
Book Notes
- I Called Him Uncle Harry: Growing Up in the Truman-Wallace Household, by David Wallace
- Baseball in St. Louis: From Little Leagues to Major Leagues, by Ed Wheatley
- The CMH Story: From Dreams to Reality and Beyond: A Firsthand History of Rural Health-Care Success in the Missouri Ozarks, by Kerry D. Douglas and James C. Sterling
- The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, by Thavolia Glymph
- Route 36: Ohio to Colorado, America’s Heartland Highway, by Allan McCallister Ferguson
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Cover Description
Stump Speaking, 1856, by George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879). Mezzotint engraving by Louis-Adolphe Goutier, hand-colored. [SHSMO Art Collection, 1963.0012]