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John B. Boles is the William P. Hobby Professor of History at Rice University. Among his books are A University So Conceived: A Brief History of Rice University (Houston, 2006; expanded edition, 2012), and University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2007; expanded ed., 2012), and many others. Also Editor, Journal of Southern History, 1983–.