John Boles papers

Collection

Identifier: MS 0423

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Scope and Contents

The papers consist of historian John B. Boles’ Baltimore Museum of Art draft text and accompanying board proofs; Higginbotham Symposium 1984/85 correspondence, individual drafts of articles, and proofs; and drafts of Professor Boles’ earlier works, including The Great Revival, 1787-1805: the origins of the Southern evangelical mind; Religion in Antebellum Kentucky; America: The Middle Period; and Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord.

Dates

Creation: Majority of material found within 1972-1988

Restrictions on Access

This material is open for research. Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to publish from the John Boles Papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

Biographical / Historical

John B. Boles, the William P. Hobby professor of history at Rice University and editor of the Journal of Southern History , received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Rice University in 1965 and his Doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1969. He is the author of numerous books and articles regarding American southern history.

Other works by Boles include:

"Black Southerners, 1619-1869" (1983)

"Rice University and the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations" (1991)

"A university so conceived: a brief history of Rice" (1992)

"The irony of southern religion" (1994)

"The South through time: a history of an American region" (1995)

"The Great Revival: beginnings of the Bible belt" (1996)

"University builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the founding of the Rice Institute" (2007).