Publications

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.

This image of Jefferson City, painted by watercolorist Keith Crown, demonstrates the artist’s distinctive uses of color and perspective. Titled Capitol Building, Jefferson City, the image is on display along with many other works as part of the exhibit Keith Crown: A Retrospective, which showcases paintings and ceramics from the artist’s seventy-year career. A Retrospective is on display in the Society’s Main Gallery through June 6. Crown’s life and work will be discussed during “Travels with Keith Crown: A Roundtable Discussion of the Life and Art of an Extraordinary Painter” on May 2 at 2:00 p.m. in the Society’s Main Gallery.

April 2009 Vol. 103, No. 3

Feature Articles
133
L’ Anneé du Coup: The Battle of St. Louis, 1780, Part 1
By Carolyn Gilman
148
“A Damned Tight Place”: General Jeff Thompson Confronts the Federals at Fredericktown, Missouri
By James E. McGhee
161
“Drifting Back into Their Old Ways”: Local Efforts to Banish the German Language from Missouri During the Great War
By Petra DeWitt
183
From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia
River Traffic: The Steamboat’s Mark on Missouri
By Elizabeth Engel
188
Book Reviews

Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country
By Carl J. Ekberg
Reviewed by Patricia Cleary
The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene.
By Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
Reviewed by Gary R. Kremer
Independent Immigrants: A Settlement of Hanoverian Germans in Western Missouri
By Robert W. Frizzell
Reviewed by Walter A. Schroeder
192
Book Notes

Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist
By Gary Scharnhorst
The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume 1: May 1832-April 1833
By Alexander Philip Maximilian; edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher; translated by William J. Orr, Paul Schach, and Dieter Karch
The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley: Pioneer of Women’s Education in Missouri
By Kristie C. Wolferman
Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register
By Bruce S. Allardice
Mystery of the Irish Wilderness: Land and Legend of Father John Joseph Hogan’s Lost Irish Colony in the Ozark Wilderness
By Leland Payton and Crystal Payton
193
Graduate Theses Relating to Missouri History, 2008

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News in Brief

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

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