Comics’ Second City: The Gateway History of the American Comic Book

By Mike Phoenix (St. Louis, 2010)

Reviewed by Lauren Mitchell, Senior Editor Read more »

The Flags of Civil War Missouri

By Glenn Dedmondt (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Co., 2010)

Reviewed by William C. Winter Read more »

Yankee Warhorse: A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus Read more »

Rising on the River: St. Louis 1822 to 1850, Explosive Growth from Town to City

By Frederick A. Hodes, Ph.D. Read more »

By Katherine Fischer (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006)

Reviewed by David Lobbig, Associate Curator of Environmental Life

Dreaming the Mississippi is Katherine Fischer’s passionate account of life on the ever-changing great river of North America. Read more »

By Michael J. Trinklein (Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2010)

Reviewed by Lauren Mitchell, Senior Editor

Lost States is an entertaining and somewhat informative read. Is this scholarly research backed up by copious citations? No. Read more »

By Barrett Tillman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010)

Reviewed by Earl K. Dille

Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan tells the story of the end of World War II, and it is brilliantly researched and told by Mr. Read more »

Army Life: From a Soldier’s Journal—Incidents, Sketches and Record of a Union Soldier’s Army Life, in Camp and Field, 1861–1864, by Albert O. Marshall. Edited and annotated by Robert G. Schultz (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009).

Reviewed by William C. Winter

Albert O. Read more »

by Carol Clark (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, in cooperation with the Denver Art Museum, October 2009)

Reviewed by Jeffrey Smith, Professor of History, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri

This must have been a difficult book to write. Read more »

St. Louis from Village to Metropolis: Essays from the Missouri Historical Review, 1906–2006, edited and with an introduction by Louis S. Gerteis (Columbia: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009)

Reviewed by Emily Troxell Jaycox
Librarian, Missouri History Museum Read more »