The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson
History runs through St. Louis like a current. It’s downtown as tourists spill around the Old Federal Courthouse—where the infamous Dred Scott case began—on their way to the glinting Gateway Arch, the national monument to Western Expansion, to empire. It flows westward to Forest Park, site of the 1904 World’s Fair, and through the architectural […]
