Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939–1941

By Lynne Olson (Random House, 2013)

Reviewed by Jamie Spencer Read more »

Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel Clemens and Theodore Roosevelt and the Arrival of a New Century

By Philip McFarland (Rowman and Littlefield, 2012)

Reviewed by Jamie Spencer Read more »

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 »