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  1. Forgot 2 mention Ben Wise (Rice History PhD) won the C. Vann Woodward prize for the best dissertation in Southern History completed in 2008! 10:08 AM Dec 4th from web
  2. History Department Holiday party today canceled due to weather. Too late to cancel the food, though. (Heh heh. Yum!) 10:07 AM Dec 4th from web
  3. Tip no. 8: Have a friendly faculty member read over your personal statement before you submit it. Also, if poss. the writing sample. 10:02 AM Dec 4th from web
  4. At the 2009 Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, seven Rice graduates participated. Bethany Johnson presented opening address. 9:59 AM Dec 4th from web
  5. Tip no. 7: Talk to graduate students who are already in the program. Find them on the History website, Graduates, Graduate Interests tab. 11:52 AM Nov 19th from web
  6. Tip no. 6: It can't hurt to show that you can conceptualize a research project. 9:45 AM Nov 9th from web
  7. Tip no. 5: You did realize, of course, that you have to find a faculty member willing to supervise your PhD research? 9:48 AM Nov 3rd from web
  8. Title" Upon the Altar of Our Country: Confederate Identity, Nationalism, and Morale in Harrison County, Texas, 1860-1865" 12:43 PM Oct 29th from web
  9. Graduate student Andrew F. Lang has an article in volume 55, June 2009 issue of "Civil War History". 12:41 PM Oct 29th from web
  10. CAPTIVES AND VOYAGERS by Dr. Alex Byrd. AHA's Wesley-Logan Book Prize 2009. http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/bookPages/9780807133590.html 12:39 PM Oct 29th from web
  11. Tip no. 4: "I have always wanted to study History since the day I was born." Tread this well-worn path with care. 12:34 PM Oct 29th from web
  12. New career advice column from Inside Higher Ed titled "PhDo": http://bit.ly/15DlFU. See "Conference Do's and Don't's" 9:26 AM Oct 27th from web
  13. Tip no. 3: What goes into a good writing sample? A deep engagement with primary historical sources. 8:48 AM Oct 26th from web
  14. ARTILLERY OF HEAVEN won 2009 John Hope Franklin Prize from the ASA as the best book best-published book in American Studies. 11:33 AM Oct 22nd from web
  15. Looking at ARTILLERY OF HEAVEN, American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East by Ussama Makdisi. 11:31 AM Oct 22nd from web
  16. Linda & Richard Salvucci on campus Oct. 15. Hands-on workshop: using Voyages Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database. Sewell 207, 7pm 1:52 PM Oct 14th from web
  17. Tip no. 2: Study faculty interests carefully. Read something he/she has published before making contact. (Pubs listed on website). 1:44 PM Oct 14th from web
  18. Tip no. 1: read the entire Rice Graduate History website! http://bit.ly/cK16A 11:15 AM Oct 12th from web
  19. Welcome! Looking for ways to improve your graduate school application for History at Rice? Find them here. Soon. 10:11 AM Oct 9th from web