Browsing Rice Historical Review by Title
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Michael E. Debakey High School for Health Professions: Houston Magnet Schools and the Mandate of Integration
(2018)In the 1970s, the Houston Independent School District embarked on an ambitious program of voluntary desegregation driven by magnet schools. The DeBakey High School for Health Professions, which offered high quality career ... -
Preserving the Spirit of National Parks: The U.S. Army in Yellowstone
(2016)As the flagship U.S. National Park, Yellowstone,throughout its administrative history, has set many precedents for park management policies and practices across the United States. This essay examines the period of ... -
Race, Labor, and Class in Interwar New York
(2018)Black urban politics in New York City blossomed as black migrants found employment in the industrial North during the Great Migration. Publishing its first issue in 1917, the black radical newspaper the Messenger, sought ... -
Remembering Rice: How Should the University Acknowledge and Represent its Founder’s Past?
(2019)William Marsh Rice, who chartered the Rice Institute, is popularly remembered for his philanthropy and for his dramatic murder. Often left out of the common narrative is his involvement in slavery, and the Texas cotton ... -
Stranger Lands: Politics, Ethnicity, and Occupation on the Eastern Front, 1914-1918
(2018)This seminar paper seeks to reconstruct how ethnic politics and inter-communal relations in Eastern Europe during World War I were central to the war’s conduct and legacy. Examining different popular and institutional ... -
The Blockade of Leningrad & the Mixed Results of Sovietization
(2016)The Siege of Leningrad, a joint German-Finnish operation during World War II, lasted for 880 days and took the lives of a large number of the citizens of the city. The city was entirely cut off from the rest of the Soviet ... -
The Decay of the State
(2017)German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) perceived that certain fundamental structures’ from language to justice’ which had previously been enshrined by religious transcendence were by his time decaying through ... -
The Politics of Policy: the Obama Doctrine and the Arab Spring
(2017)This paper defines and examines the Obama Doctrine by contextualizing it through the lens of other presidential doctrines and schools of realism and idealism. In addition, it seeks to establish the doctrine's tenets and ... -
The Religion of Thomas Jefferson
(2017)Thomas Jefferson’s religious beliefs remain a point of contention in contemporary political discourse, with actors on many different sides of religious debate seeking to claim him as an advocate for their position. In this ... -
The Work of Women: Middle Class Domesticity in Eighteenth Century British Literature
(2017)This essay considers how British literature in the eighteenth century participated in creating a singularly domestic image of women. Addressing gender roles, Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, Mary Hays’s Emma Courtney, and Jane ... -
Through the Looking Glass: Themes in Narratives by Arabs, Americans, and Europeans from 1890 to 1960
(2019)As relations between the United States and the countries of the Middle East evolved from the arrival of Protestant missionaries in 19th-century Jerusalem to the imperialist presence of American oil companies in Saudi Arabia ... -
Women on the Oil Frontier: Gender and Power in Aramco's Arabia
(2017)The Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco), which controlled the world's largest crude oil reserve and was once the largest American investment overseas, often claimed that its petroleum extraction activities contributed ...
