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The Missouri Historical Review, an award-winning scholarly quarterly, has served as the cornerstone of the Society's publication program since 1906. This richly illustrated journal features recent 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.

July 2008 (Vol. 102, No. 4)
Table of Contents
Feature Articles
Making Boys into Miners: The Freshman Fight and Hazing at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1903-1945
By Patrick Huber and Stephen Foster
 195 Hazing at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
Faith and Foreign Policy: An Exploration into the Mind of Harry Truman
By Richard S. Kirkendall
 214 Truman 
St. Louis: Essays from the First Century of the Missouri Historical Review
By Louis S. Gerteis
 225 The Arch from Illinois
From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City
Missouri’s Airline: TWA’s “Around the World Service”
By David Boutros
 238 a TWA stewardess serving in-flight dinner
Book Reviews
 243  
Friedrich Hecker: Two Lives for Liberty.
By Sabine Freitag, translated from the German and edited by Steven Rowan.
Reviewed by Walter D. Kamphoefner
    
Evolution of a Missouri Asylum: Fulton State Hospital, 1851-2006.
By Richard L. Lael, Barbara Brazos, and Margot Ford McMillen.
Reviewed by Danny Wedding
    
The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930.
By Felicia Hardison Londré.
Reviewed by Alan R. Havig
    
Book Notes
 191  
Centuries of St. Louis.
By William Barnaby Faherty, S.J.
    
Unlocking the Past: A History of Stoddard County Towns.
By Madeline DeJournett and ElFreda Cox.
    
Wheaton Echoes 1907-2007.
Compiled by Ralph and Betty Lamberson.
    
Voices of the Heart: Asian American Women on Immigration, Work, and Family.
By Huping Ling.
    
American Civil War Fortifications (3): The Mississippi and River Forts.
By Ron Field.
    
News in Brief
248  
Index to Volume 102
 250  

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