Feature Articles
- In Memory of Perry McCandless, 1917–2021
- Doing “Some Good”: George Horne’s Role in the 1950 Desegregation of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy and the University of Missouri, By Larry Gragg
- Pragmatism and the Political Turn: The Assemblies of God in Springfield, Missouri, By Roger G. Robins
- The 1903 St. Louis Turf Investment Companies Scandal: Ponies and Ponzi Schemes, By David A. Warfield
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Research Center–Columbia
- The Val Farmer Papers and the 1980s Farm Crisis, By Laura R. Jolley
Book Reviews
- Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams, By Henry I. Schvey
Reviewed by David A. Crespy - West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, By Kevin Waite
Reviewed by Andrew F. Lang - A Weary Land: Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas, By Kelly Houston Jones
Reviewed by Cherisse Jones-Branch - A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era, By Andrew F. Lang
Reviewed by Justin Behrend - Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age, By Dana M. Caldemeyer
Reviewed by Chad Pearson - Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue, By Adrian Miller
Reviewed by Ken Albala
Book Notes
- Show Me Small-Town Missouri, By Jake McCandless
- The Last Children of Mill Creek, By Vivian Gibson
- The Hill: St. Louis’s Italian American Neighborhood, By LynnMarie Alexander
- Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier, By Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
- Seth: The Life and Journey of General Seth Jefferson McKee, By Jerry Ford and Frank Nickell
- The Inspiring Story of a Special Relationship, By Nancy Carver
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Cover Description
Landscape—Cornshock (A Windy Day, Rocheport, Dec. 3, 1920), by John Sites Ankeney (1870–1946). Pastel on toned paper, 1920. [SHSMO Art Collection, 1963.0011]