Editor's Note Ryan Schumacher The April 2022 issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly concludes our 125th volume. (From 1897 to 1912, the journal was known as the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association.) To mark the occasion, the editorial staff decided to solicit essays on how a variety of topics have been covered in the Quarterly, and we asked historian Richard McCaslin, author of At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897–1997 (Texas State Historical Association, 2007) to write a general history of the publication. These essays detail how there is much to celebrate in the Quarterly’s history—as McCaslin notes, it “is the oldest continuously published historical quarterly in the United States”—but we have also often been behind the times and still have room to improve. It should be noted these essays do not touch on every topic of importance in Texas history and are not comprehensive of every item published in the Quarterly. We regret, in particular, the absence of an essay on the journal’s coverage of Indigenous Texans, and surely a case could be made that World War II had an effect on the state that was nearly as transformative as that of the Civil War. (An essay on the Quarterly’s coverage of African American history was not quite ready when this issue when into production; we hope to publish it at a later date.) Still, these essays, which include areas that have been strengths as well as some that have not, should give readers an impression of how the Quarterly has changed over time in response to its editors’ vision, the historical moment, the evolution of the historical profession, and the circumstances of its parent organization, the Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly’s journey continues, and surely more change lies ahead. (The cover illustration for this issue was done by Joel Phillips.) Ryan Schumacher Managing Editor Copyright © 2022 The Texas State Historical Association