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A Haiku; Art Is Hell, Dan Burkhead May 2010

A Haiku; Art Is Hell, Dan Burkhead

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Untitled Art, Lillian Peters May 2010

Untitled Art, Lillian Peters

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Cash For Clunkers: Did It Work Or Not?, Anthony Clark, Annette Najjar, Ralph Wiedner May 2010

Cash For Clunkers: Did It Work Or Not?, Anthony Clark, Annette Najjar, Ralph Wiedner

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 (CARS) was supposed to stimulate the American economy with incentives to trade in old gas-guzzling cars for new, more efficient ones. Three economists examine the impact of this program that came to be called “Cash for Clunkers” on the St. Charles County, Missouri, economy.


From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith May 2010

From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


America’S First Interstate—The National Road And Its Reach Toward St. Clair County, Illinois, Andrew Theising May 2010

America’S First Interstate—The National Road And Its Reach Toward St. Clair County, Illinois, Andrew Theising

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The National Road was to span from Maryland to the Mississippi River, but never made it—in part due to a political battle over the location of the new Illinois state capital in the 1830s.


Spring/Summer 2010, Full Issue May 2010

Spring/Summer 2010, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


St. Louis: Air Mail Pioneer, David Straight May 2010

St. Louis: Air Mail Pioneer, David Straight

The Confluence (2009-2020)

In the decades after the Wright Brothers launched their first plane at Kitty Hawk, St. Louis was an aviation hub. Within a decade after that flight, the first airmail left Kinloch Field in St. Louis, with people sending what they knew were historic letters.


How Natural Is Nature? The Effect Of Burning On Presettlement Vegetation In West-Central Illinois, Paul Kilburn, Richard C. Brugam May 2010

How Natural Is Nature? The Effect Of Burning On Presettlement Vegetation In West-Central Illinois, Paul Kilburn, Richard C. Brugam

The Confluence (2009-2020)

When the first Euroamericans arrived in North America, they thought they were seeing a “wilderness,” unaltered by human hands. However, they were actually seeing highly managed environments. Kilburn and Brugam examine the impact of the burning of forests and prairies by Native Americans on the plant species in west-central Illinois.


Remains; Everyday, Stephanie Polizzi May 2010

Remains; Everyday, Stephanie Polizzi

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Villanelle For The Sleepless Nights, Tabitha Russo Parker May 2010

Villanelle For The Sleepless Nights, Tabitha Russo Parker

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Aunt Winnie Is Dying, Tabitha Russo Parker May 2010

Aunt Winnie Is Dying, Tabitha Russo Parker

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


In The Time Of The Fireflies, Kathy Hoormann May 2010

In The Time Of The Fireflies, Kathy Hoormann

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


The Disappearing Japanese, Tabitha Russo Parker May 2010

The Disappearing Japanese, Tabitha Russo Parker

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Vermicelli, Uncle Vinh, Huy Dang May 2010

Vermicelli, Uncle Vinh, Huy Dang

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Arrow Rock, 2009-2010, Full Issue May 2010

Arrow Rock, 2009-2010, Full Issue

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Hunt It Down, Richard Vie May 2010

Hunt It Down, Richard Vie

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Through Stolen Eyes, Sarah Hannah May 2010

Through Stolen Eyes, Sarah Hannah

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Slave And Soldier, William Glankler Nov 2009

Slave And Soldier, William Glankler

The Confluence (2009-2020)

New court records shed light on the complex relationships of slavery when a slave enlists in the Union Army during the Civil War.


The Seeds Of St. Louis Regionalism, Mark Abbott Nov 2009

The Seeds Of St. Louis Regionalism, Mark Abbott

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Harland Bartholomew’s 1948 regional plan was not a radical departure, but heir to almost a century of regional thinking and planning—including more than three dozen airports.


Worker Number 74530, Kate L. Gregg Nov 2009

Worker Number 74530, Kate L. Gregg

The Confluence (2009-2020)

In 1943, Lindenwood English professor and historian Kate Gregg became a Rosie the Riveter at the St. Louis Ordinance Plant. This is her story.


Against Pain, David L. Straight Nov 2009

Against Pain, David L. Straight

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Talk about junk mail! Makers of Antikamnia tablets, a pain reliever in turn-of-the-century St. Louis, used the mail to sell this patent medicine that was investigated by the new Food and Drug Administration in the Theodore Roosevelt administration.


From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith Nov 2009

From The Editor, Jeffrey Smith

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


Where Rivers And Ideas Meet, James D. Evans Nov 2009

Where Rivers And Ideas Meet, James D. Evans

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The St. Louis region is situated right at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, which has been constantly changing over the centuries—just like the rest of the region.


“We Shall Be Literally ‘Sold To The Dutch’”, Mark Alan Neels Nov 2009

“We Shall Be Literally ‘Sold To The Dutch’”, Mark Alan Neels

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The politicization of immigrant groups is nothing new, as this study of German immigrants and anti-German sentiment suggests.


Fall 2009, Full Issue Nov 2009

Fall 2009, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


The History Of The Illinois River And The Decline Of A Native Species, Paige Mettler-Cherry, Marian Smith Nov 2009

The History Of The Illinois River And The Decline Of A Native Species, Paige Mettler-Cherry, Marian Smith

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Floodplains as connectors to rivers are essential parts of the ecosystem; endangered plants chart progress or decline on the the Illinois River.