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Missouri Historical Review

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.

Cover Description: The Truman Family, commissioned for the State Historical Society of Missouri in 1951 by Richard N. Nacy, is one of eleven portraits that artist Greta Kempton painted of President Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, and their daughter, Margaret. The oil-on-canvas work is featured in the Society’s current gallery exhibition, Twentieth-Century Missouri Portraits: From Famous to Familiar. Beginning on page 1 of this issue, Ethan S. Rafuse examines the president’s love of history in “‘Far More Than a Romantic Adventure’: The American Civil War in Harry Truman’s History and Memory.”

October 2009 Vol. 104, No. 1

Feature Articles
1
“Far More Than a Romantic Adventure”
The American Civil War in Harry Truman’s History and Memory
By Ethan S. Rafuse
21
The Mysterious Charles Courtin and the Early Missouri Fur Trade
By Larry E. Morris
40
Anslinger vs. Donnici:
Narcotics Trafficking and Federal Justice in Kansas City, Missouri, 1939
By Patrick McLear
53
From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection-St. Louis
The Arthur Witman (1902-1991) Photograph Collection
By Nancy McIlvaney
57
Book Reviews
William Clark: Indian Diplomat
By Jay H. Buckley
Reviewed by J. Frederick Fausz
The Underground Railroad in Western Illinois
By Owen W. Muelder
Reviewed by Kristin E. S. Zapalac
Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins
By Joshua M. Dunn
Reviewed by Sherry Schirmer
61
Book Notes
Images of America, Southwest Garden
By Edna Campos Gravenhorst
Neosho: From Armistice Day to Thomas Hart Benton Day
Compiled by Larry A. James
Images of America, Route 66 in St. Louis
By Joe Sonderman
Images of America, St. Louis: The 1904 World’s Fair
By Joe Sonderman and Mike Truax
Images of America, Independence
By Richard N. Piland and Marietta Wilson Boenker
At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family’s Journey Toward Civil Rights
By Gail Milissa Grant
62
News in Brief

The Missouri Historical Review is a benefit of membership in The State Historical Society of Missouri.

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