Otis Kermit Rice (June 6, 1919 – September 22, 2003) was an American academic historian specializing in
West Virginia history.[1][2] His career was mostly at the
West Virginia Institute of Technology (1957–87) at
Montgomery where he was chairman of the history department and dean of the School of Human Studies.[3] In 2003 he became West Virginia’s first Historian Laureate.[4][5]
"West Virginia Printers and Their Work, 1790-1830" (1953), West Virginia History; 14: 297-338.
"Coal Mining in the Kanawha Valley to 1861: A View of Industrialization in the Old South" (1965), Journal of Southern History; 31: 393-416 (November issue).