Social and Economic Factors Involved in the Reconstruction of the South Following the Civil War (open access)

Social and Economic Factors Involved in the Reconstruction of the South Following the Civil War

This thesis discusses the Reconstruction period in the southern United States, including the events leading up to Reconstruction, the socioeconomic factors of Reconstruction itself, and the effect it had on both black and white societies.
Date: August 1944
Creator: Rowan, Nell
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of Smith County, Texas (open access)

A History of Smith County, Texas

This paper explores the history of Smith County in Texas. Smith County is located in the pine and post oak belts of Northeastern Texas and is the fourth county southward from the Oklahoma boundary and the third county westward from the Louisiana state line. It covers its topographical features, early Native American life, its Cherokees occupation along with their expulsion, Smith's County's establishment, it's status as a frontier, its ante-bellum period, it's place in the civil war and during reconstruction, industrial revolution, and its conditions during WWI and WWII.
Date: May 1944
Creator: Ward, William R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Importance of Charleston in Southern History (open access)

Importance of Charleston in Southern History

This study describes the history of Charleston, South Carolina before the Civil War.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Miles, Jim Tom
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relations Between the United States and Argentina, 1810-1940 (open access)

Relations Between the United States and Argentina, 1810-1940

This thesis is a survey of Argentine-United States relations from 1810 to 1940.
Date: 1948
Creator: Gray, Phyllis
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Behavior Analysis in a Secondary School (open access)

A Study of Behavior Analysis in a Secondary School

The purpose of this investigation is to study a given secondary school with which the investigator is familiar in order to determine as objectively as possible what conditions, relationships, and experiences are exercising unwholesome influences on the youngster's actions, and to determine how the school can provide opportunities for developing social behavior that will make an integrated personality.
Date: 1948
Creator: Geer, Blanche Newby
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Develop a Desirable Method of Reporting Pupil Progress in the Elementary School (open access)

To Develop a Desirable Method of Reporting Pupil Progress in the Elementary School

The problem is to examine and analyze the methods used for reporting pupil progress in the elementary schools; to give evidence of the significant changes underlying the concepts of educational achievement; and to give consideration to the basic principles involved in order to develop a desirable method.
Date: 1948
Creator: Aikin, Lorene
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Texas (open access)

A History of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Texas

The purpose of this study is to assemble the leading facts concerning the history of the Newsome Dougherty Memorial High School of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas.
Date: 1949
Creator: Wilson, Roy P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ten Assembly Programs for Intermediate Grades Designed to Further the Understanding of Mexican Culture in our Schools (open access)

Ten Assembly Programs for Intermediate Grades Designed to Further the Understanding of Mexican Culture in our Schools

It shall be the purpose of the writer to prepare program material appropriate for school use which will interest, instruct and contribute toward mutual understanding of both the Latin-American and Anglo-American child. This program material has been incorporated into ten musical plays, the themes, dances and songs of which have been gleaned from a great amount of reading material, stories related by Mexican people, legends told by pioneer Anglo residents of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and ideas that have been presented by students. It is the purpose of the writer to organize this material into plays which may be of service to any teacher who intends to present a program, in the intermediate grades, dealing with some phase of Latin and Anglo-American relations.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Gross, Marjorie Clark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Franco-American Diplomatic Relations 1776-1898 (open access)

Franco-American Diplomatic Relations 1776-1898

This thesis presents a diplomatic history of the United States and France for the period 1776-1898. This study, due to the enormous amount of foreign diplomacy, is by no means exhaustive. The author has tried to limit the diplomacy of the United States with the other nations to a minimum and omitted all relations except in instances which are closely related to the diplomacy of France and the United States.
Date: 1949
Creator: Peveto, Sidney Kermit
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Significant Differences between American Education and that of Mexico (open access)

Some Significant Differences between American Education and that of Mexico

This thesis compares the educational systems of the United States and of Mexico from their beginnings, and especially notes the progress that Mexico has made since 1920.
Date: 1945
Creator: Williams, Narbon B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Philosophy of the Activity Movement (open access)

The Philosophy of the Activity Movement

The problem of this research is to analyze the philosophy of the activity movement in the United States from a sociological point of view. Specifically, the purpose of the study is to discover whether or not the activity movement grew out of the social conditions of the times and was designed to meet the staggering problems of social development and reconstruction in America.
Date: 1941
Creator: Glover, Lila Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Workshop for Teachers (open access)

The Workshop for Teachers

The problem of this study is concerned with the history, trends, and evaluation of the summer workshop movement for teachers in the United States. In addition, a study was made of the Child Development Workshop conducted on the campus of the North Texas State Teachers College, Denton, Texas, during the summer of 1942.
Date: 1943
Creator: Sparks, Izetta
System: The UNT Digital Library
Need and Proposed Course of Study in First-Aid Recommended for Texas Junior High Schools (open access)

Need and Proposed Course of Study in First-Aid Recommended for Texas Junior High Schools

The purpose of this study is to show the need for placing the teaching of accident prevention and first-aid into the curricula of all public schools of the State of Texas on a compulsory basis and to prescribe definite criteria for the work.
Date: 1947
Creator: Davis, Wallace T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Appraisal of the Practice of Homemaking in the Dallas Junior High Schools (open access)

The Appraisal of the Practice of Homemaking in the Dallas Junior High Schools

The problem in this study is to make the appraisal of the practice of homemaking in the Dallas junior high schools.
Date: 1943
Creator: Enderby, Lillian
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship Between Mental Ability and Reading Achievement (open access)

The Relationship Between Mental Ability and Reading Achievement

The purpose of this study is to determine, by actual classroom experiment, the relationship between mental ability and reading achievement; and to ascertain the best methods of increasing reading ability. A secondary purpose in connection with this study was the critical evaluation of a testing program.
Date: 1945
Creator: Primm, Jewel van Landingham
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Position of Texas in the Relations Between the United States and Mexico from 1876 to 1910 (open access)

The Position of Texas in the Relations Between the United States and Mexico from 1876 to 1910

"The purpose of this study was to show the position of Texas in the relations between the United States and Mexico from 1876 to 1910. With this thought in mind, the general problem has been to link the two countries through Texas. The Texas border relations between the United States and Mexico during this period were interesting because they showed the continued success of the efforts of the past years in building up better principles of settlement. " --leaf 129
Date: June 1942
Creator: Alexander, Gladys M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expropriation of American Oil Interests and its Effect on United States-Mexican Relations since 1938 (open access)

Expropriation of American Oil Interests and its Effect on United States-Mexican Relations since 1938

This thesis discusses the seizure of all foreign owned oil property by the Mexican government in 1938 and the historical events leading up to the seizure.
Date: 1947
Creator: Buell, Erwin C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Relationships Between Socio-Economic Status, Popularity, Achievement, and Personality in the Fifth Grade of the Sanger Public School, Sanger, Texas (open access)

A Study of Relationships Between Socio-Economic Status, Popularity, Achievement, and Personality in the Fifth Grade of the Sanger Public School, Sanger, Texas

The purpose which guided the writer in the conducting of this study was a desire to determine the existence of any relationships which might be perceptible among such traits and considerations as socio-economic status, popularity at school, general scholastic achievement, and traits of personality as they were found in a group of fifth-grade pupils enrolled in the public school of Sanger, Texas.
Date: 1945
Creator: Gentle, Mary Cathlene
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of the Teacher in the Health Service Program of the Elementary Schools of Dallas, Texas (open access)

The Role of the Teacher in the Health Service Program of the Elementary Schools of Dallas, Texas

It was the purpose of this study, first, to determine how and to what extent a teacher can be instrumental in improving the health status of the Dallas elementary school child, and second, to ascertain the importance of a teacher's evaluation of physical aspects from the standpoint of their effect on the mental, social, and emotional well-being of the school child.
Date: 1947
Creator: Williams, Beatrice Mabry
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of Pecan Valley and Brown County Baptist Associations (open access)

A History of Pecan Valley and Brown County Baptist Associations

Unpublished dissertation on the history of Pecan Valley and the Baptist associations in Brown county, Texas from 1826 to 1940.
Date: 1940
Creator: Todd, William Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History