Rice Historical Review
The Rice Historical Review published its inaugural issue in April 2016. It was launched by a group of undergraduate history majors passionate about historical research. This journal is sponsored by the Rice History Department.
For more information about RHR, including submission details for future volumes, please visit the journal's website at http://www.ricehistoricalreview.org/.
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Front Matter Spring 2022
(2022)CONTENTS: Tides --Editorial Board -- Advisor -- Undergraduate Studies Committee Members -- Table of Contents --Letter from the Editors -- The Floyd Seyward Lear Prize -
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Front Matter 2021 Spring Issue
(2021)CONTENTS: Untold Histories -- Editorial Board -- Table of Contents -- Letter from the Editors -- The Floyd Seyward Lear Prize -
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Translating Theology: A Textual Examination of Akbar’s Religiosity
(2020)This paper examines the translation movement of Hindu epics from Sanskrit to Persian spearheaded by the sixteenth century Mughal emperor Akbar. Many historians understand this phenomenon as a cultural accommodation by the emperor to attain legitimacy amongst a heterogeneous populace. This paper, in contrast, seeks to locate this effort within a broader ... -
Front Matter 2020 Spring Issue
(2020)CONTENTS: Perception -- Editorial Board -- Table of Contents -- Letter from the Editors -- The Floyd Seyward Lear Prize -
Seeing Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Through a Romantic Lens
(2020)This paper analyzes Mary Wollstonecraft’s life and fourteen major literary works. It argues that her legacy should be considered in the context of romanticism. Romanticism is usually defined in a traditional, masculine sense: as an emotional escape from repression and rationalism. Eighteenth-century societal norms, however, categorized women as purely ... -
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King of the Birds: Making Symbol, Subject, and Science in the Skies of Hindustan
(2020)When the Mughals founded an empire in Hindustan, they sought to legitimize their budding dynasty through diverse sources of power. In the texts and art produced by emperors and their courts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these performances of power constantly featured birds. Birds, enfleshed and imagined, were used as motifs that ... -
Fainting Francis or Weeping Willie: The Construction of American Perceptions of Mohammed Mossadegh
(2020)The April 1951 election of Mohammed Mossadegh as Prime Minister of Iran and the subsequent nationalization of oil sparked a prolonged crisis that involved both the British and U.S. governments. No agreement could be reached between the British and Iranians. The crisis culminated in the joint U.S. and British effort, called Operation AJAX, which ... -
Contested Symbols: Vichy France and the Legacy of the French Revolution
(2019)This paper examines how Vichy, the authoritarian government in France throughout most of the Second World War, reckoned with the legacy of the French Revolution. I investigate this relationship through the regime’s treatment of four revolutionary symbols: the figure Marianne, the anthem “La Marseillaise,” the national holiday of Bastille Day, and the ...
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