The premier issue of The Confluence. A regional studies journal published by Lindenwood University Press.
Where Rivers and Ideas Meet
by James D. Evans
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.
The Seeds of St. Louis Regionalism
by Mark Abbott
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.
Against Pain
by David L. Straight
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.
"We Shall Be Literally 'Sold to the Dutch'"
by Mark Alan Neels
The politicization of immigrant groups is nothing new, as this study of German immigrants and anti-German sentiment suggests.
Slave and Soldier
by William Glankler
New court records shed light on the complex relationships of slavery when a slave enlists in the Union Army during the Civil War.
The History of the Illinois River and the Decline of a Native Species
by Paige Mettler-Cherry and Marian Smith
Floodplains as connectors to rivers are essential parts of the ecosystem; endangered plants chart progress or decline on the Illinois River.
Worker 74530
by Kate L. Gregg
In 1943, Lindenwood English professor and historian Kate Gregg became a Rosie the Riveter at the St. Louis Ordnance Plant. This is her story.
