John B. Boles

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Boles, John B. (1972). The Great Revival, 1787–1805: The Origins of the Southern Evangelical Mind. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky (Reprinted Ann Arbor, UMI, 1992.). ISBN   0-8131-1260-5. OCLC   664363602.
  • Boles, John B. (1983). Black Southerners. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN   0-8131-0303-7. OCLC   9621875.
  • Boles, John B. (1994). The Irony of Southern Religion . New York: Peter Lang. ISBN   9780820425849. OCLC   30354169.
  • Boles, John B. (1997). A University So Conceived: A Brief History of Rice. Houston, Texas: Rice University. OCLC   37907268.
  • Boles, John B. (2001) "Coming of Age in the Bible Belt" in Autobiographical Reflections on Southern Religious History, Univ. of Georgia Press, pp. 111–30. Publisher's website. Also available as Google book.
  • Boles, John B. (2004). The South Through Time: A History of an American Region. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall. ISBN   9780131835481. OCLC   65167047.
  • Boles, John B. (2007). A Companion to the American South. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   9781405138307. OCLC   437213922.
  • Boles, John B. (2007). University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute . Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. OCLC   928924562.
  • Boles, John B.; Hall, Randal L. (2010). Seeing Jefferson Anew In His Time and Ours. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press. ISBN   9780813929934. OCLC   860399811.
  • Boles, John B. (2017). Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty. New York: Basic Books. ISBN   9780465094684. OCLC   1001569980.
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    John B. Boles
    BornOctober 20, 1943
    Houston, Texas, U.S.
    OccupationProfessor
    Spouse(s)Nancy Gaebler Boles, m. 1967
    Academic background
    EducationBA, PhD
    Alma mater Rice University
    University of Virginia