The seventh issue of The Confluence. A regional studies journal published by Lindenwood University Press.
"Modern Day Canary in the Coal Mine"
by John A. Crawford
Salamanders serve an array of functions in the Missouri environment, as this primer on amphibians by John Crawford suggests.
"The American Bottom: The Bar, between the Levees and the River"
by Quinta Scott
This third installment of Quinta Scott’s work examining the Mississippi River environment looks at those narrow, man-made spaces between levees and the river, and the life within.
"Living on the Color Line: 2800 Cass in a Period and Place of Transition"
by Lucas Delort
This co-winner of the Tatom Award explores the reasons why Delmar Avenue rather than Cass Avenue became the “Mason-Dixon Line” of St. Louis in the twentieth century.
"To Love and To Cherish: Marital Violence and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century America"
by Julian Barr
In this co-winner of the Tatom Award, Julian Barr uses an 1865 divorce case to explore the ways women gained protection against domestic violence through the court system.
