| Preface |
vii |
| Introduction |
1 |
| Louis S. Gerteis |
| The First Jews in St. Louis |
16 |
| Walter Ehrlich |
| “Endangering the Peace of Society”: Abolitionist Agitation and Mob Reaction in St. Louis and Alton, 1836-1838 |
36 |
| Bonnie E. Laughlin |
| Lutheran Families in St. Louis and Perry County, Missouri, 1839-1870 |
60 |
| Louise Buenger Robbert |
| Social Life in St. Louis from 1840 to 1860 |
74 |
| Helen Davault Williams |
| Business Life in St. Louis, Missouri, 1847-1848, as Revealed in the Letters of North Carolina Immigrants |
93 |
| Lewis E. Atherton |
| The National Railroad Convention in St. Louis, 1849 |
103 |
| R. S. Cotterill |
| Yankee Merchants in a Border City: A Look at St. Louis Businessmen in the 1850s |
116 |
| James Neal Primm |
| “An Outrage on Humanity”: Martial Law and Military Prisons in St. Louis During the Civil War |
128 |
| Louis S. Gerteis |
| Race Relations in St. Louis, 1865-1919 |
150 |
| Lawrence O. Christensen |
| China at the St. Louis World’s Fair |
164 |
| Irene E. Cortinovis |
| St. Louis Tourist-Sportsmen: Urban Clubs in the Wetlands |
173 |
| Lynn Morrow |
| Creating the Dream: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, 1933-1935 |
199 |
| Sharon A. Brown |
| Fighting for Democracy in St. Louis: Civil Rights During World War II |
223 |
| Patricia L. Adams |
| “She Got to Berlin”: Virginia Irwin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch War Correspondent |
241 |
| Anne R. Kenney |
| Contributors |
264 |
| Index |
266 |
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