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Missouri Historical Review

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April 2008 (Vol. 102, No. 3)
Feature Articles

“‘Tom, You’re Not Going to Get [It] On a Silver Platter’: The Inaugural Senate Campaign of Thomas F. Eagleton” By James N. Giglio, pp. 133-153.

“James MacKay: International Explorer” By Thomas C. Danisi and W. Raymond Wood, pp. 154-164

“A Half-Century of Missouri History: A Memoir” By Perry McCandless, pp. 165-177.

From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia “Through the Lions: Missouri Journalism in China” By Thomas Miller, pp. 178-181.

“Persephone’s Shade Tree: An Important Thomas Hart Benton Study Drawing Acquired by The State Historical Society of Missouri” By Joan Stack, pp. 182-185.

Book Reviews, pp. 186-190

“The St. Louis Baseball Reader.” Edited by Richard Peterson. Reviewed by Jeffrey Smith

“Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950.” By Rosemary Feurer. Reviewed by Stephen L. McIntyre

“Nathan B. Young and the Struggle over Black Higher Education.” By Antonio F. Holland. Reviewed by Pellom McDaniels III

“Long Road to Liberty: The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army: The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry.” By Donald Allendorf. Reviewed by Virginia J. Laas

Book Notes, pp. 191-192

“Hidden Assets: Connecting the Past to the Future of St. Louis.” Edited by Richard Rosenfeld.

“Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery.” By Earl M. Maltz.

“Marching with the First Nebraska: A Civil War Diary.” By August Scherneckau; edited by James E. Potter and Edith Robbins; translated by Edith Robbins

“Hip to the Trip: A Cultural History of Route 66.” By Peter B. Dedek.

“Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes.” Edited by John Edgar Tidwell and Cheryl R. Ragar; with a foreword by Arnold Rampersad.

“Confederate Guerrilla: The Civil War Memoir of Joseph Bailey.” Edited by T. Lindsay Baker.

“Jo Shelby’s Iron Brigade.” By Deryl P. Sellmeyer

“Satchel Paige and Company: Essays on the Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues.” Edited by Leslie A. Heaphy.

Graduate Theses Relating to Missouri History, 2007, p. 193.

January 2008 (Vol. 102, No. 2)

“James W. Goodrich (1939-2007)” By Lynn Wolf Gentzler, pp. 72-77.

“‘A Consistent Player and a Consistent Christian’: The Midwestern Roots of Branch Rickey’s Idealism and Racial Progressivism, 1904-1942” By Lee Lowenfish, pp. 78-87

“A Cultural Barometer: The St. Louis Mercantile Library as National Institution, 1846-1871” By Adam Arenson, pp. 88-102

“Popular Arts and Entertainments as Presented in One Hundred Years of the Missouri Historical Review” By Alan R. Havig, pp. 103-117


October 2007 (Vol. 102, No. 1)

“Marie Dierking Herd Neuhaus: Lafayette County German Farmwife and Proto-Feminist” By Robert W. Frizzell, pp. 1-9.

“The Pertle Springs Park: The Life and Death of a Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Resort” By Jeffrey K. Yelton, pp. 10-24.

“The Patriarch, His “Wives,” His “Slaves,” and His “Children”: Contested Wills in the Case of Keen v. Keen” By Kimberly A. Schreck, pp. 25-41.

““I Enjoyed My Work in the Senate””: An Oral Interview with Thomas F. Eagleton, pp.42-57.


July 2007 (Vol. 101, No. 4)

“America’s Crossroads: A Century of Kansas City Essays from the Missouri Historical Review” By Diane Mutti Burke and John Herron, pp. 196-204

“Edward Miller’s Town: The Reconceptualization of Pleasant Hill by the Pacific Railroad of Missouri” By James R. Shortridge, pp. 205-225

“The St. Louis and Suburban Streetcar Strike of 1900” By James F. Baker, pp. 226-245


April 2007 (Vol. 101, No. 3)

“James H. Lucas: Eminent St. Louis Entrepreneur and Philanthropist” By Joseph C. Thurman, pp. 129-145

“Hickory Wind: The Role of Personality and the Press in Andrew Jackson’s Bank War in Missouri, 1831-1837” By Stephen Campbell, pp. 146-167

“William J. Thompkins: African American Physician, Politician, and Publisher” By Gary R. Kremer, pp. 168-182


January 2007 (Vol. 101, No. 2)

“Making Him Fresh Again: On Writing Yet Another Mark Twain Biography” By Ron Powers, pp. 67-77

““The Most Serious Senator”: A Reconsideration of Forrest C. Donnell of Missouri and the North Atlantic Treaty” By Matthew C. Sherman, pp. 78-98

““Bashi-Bazouks” and Rebels Too: Action at Camden Point, July 13, 1864” By Scott A. Porter, pp. 99-114


October 2006 (Vol. 101, No. 1)

“A “Damn Yankee” in Rebel Territory: James Hutchison Kerr's Reflections on his Southeast Missouri Years” By Joe P. Dunn, pp. 1-16

“Whose Forest is This?: Hillfolk, Industrialists, and Government in the Ozarks” By David Benac, pp. 17-35

“Forty Years of Missouri History: A Memoir” By Lawrence O. Christensen, pp. 36-47

““I Plant Myself . . . Down on My Unquestionable Rights”: Elijah Lovejoy’s Fatal Stand for Freedom” By Katie Roberts, pp. 48-


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