Edwin M. Stanton's Special Military Units and the Prosecution of the War, 1862-1865 (open access)

Edwin M. Stanton's Special Military Units and the Prosecution of the War, 1862-1865

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the six special military units which were authorized and created by the War Department under the direction of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. In relating the military history of such special units the study determines what contributions and significance they made to the Union war effort.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Mangrum, Robert G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Agonizing Evolution: a History of the Texas National Guard, 1900-1945 (open access)

An Agonizing Evolution: a History of the Texas National Guard, 1900-1945

The National Guard in America began in the Revolutionary War. The Texas units resulted from the earlier concept and emerged in 1835 to resist Mexican oppression. Following achievement of statehood, Texas militiamen served in the Mexican War, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War. As the twentieth century began, Texans had a long history of service in reserve military organizations in spite of a prevailing attitude of contempt for citizen soldiers held by influential regular army officials.
Date: May 1979
Creator: Milner, Elmer Ray
System: The UNT Digital Library
Life of the enlisted soldier on the western frontier (open access)

Life of the enlisted soldier on the western frontier

In contrast to the relatively rapid changes occurring in the modern American army, the period between the end of the War of 1812 and the beginning of the Mexican War offers a definite period for a study of military life when reform came slowly.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Graham, Stanley Silton
System: The UNT Digital Library
The missionary world of Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson (open access)

The missionary world of Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson

This study surveys the dreams and ideas of the missionary movement as shown in the life of the Worcester-Robertson family who lived among the Cherokee and Creek Indians. The sources include pertinent material in the papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia; the Indian Archives and Alice Robertson papers, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City; the Alice Robertson Collection, University of tulsa; family papers, interviews and correspondence.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Brown, Nettie Terry
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States-Iranian relations, 1945-1947 (open access)

United States-Iranian relations, 1945-1947

During 1946 and 1947, Russia pressured Iran to grant an oil concession in the northern provinces. During this time, the United States supported Iran's right to make its decision free from Soviet pressure.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Partin, Michael Wayne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freud and Clio: a historiographical inquiry into psychohistory (open access)

Freud and Clio: a historiographical inquiry into psychohistory

This work is an attempt to examine the nature of psychohistorical writing after 1958 and to assess the impact of this new discipline in historiography. The year 1958 was chosen as the date of beginning of scholarly psychohistory for two reasons: in that year the highly respected historian, William Langer, in a presidential address to the American Historical Association, called upon his colleagues to use psychoanalysis in their research; and Erik Erikcon published Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History, which has been accepted ever since as the finest example of psychohistorical writing.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Sanders, Gary Burton
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crossing the colorline: three decades of the United Packinghouse Workers of America's crusade against racism in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1936-1968 (open access)

Crossing the colorline: three decades of the United Packinghouse Workers of America's crusade against racism in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1936-1968

This study examines the role of southern black union workers in the struggle against racism in the United Packinghouse Workers America's activities in the Trans Mississippi region of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico and south Kansas.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Adedeji, Moses
System: The UNT Digital Library
School-directed and nonschool-directed aspirations of middle- and upper-middle-class Jewish high school students in a large, urban Texas community (open access)

School-directed and nonschool-directed aspirations of middle- and upper-middle-class Jewish high school students in a large, urban Texas community

This investigation is concerned with change in school-directed aspirations of middle and upper-middle-class Jewish public high school students over a fifteen-year period of time.
Date: December 1974
Creator: Weston, Joan Laveson
System: The UNT Digital Library
A history of Lon Morris College (open access)

A history of Lon Morris College

The problem with which this study is concerned is that of analyzing the implementation of the stated purposes of analyzing the implementation of the stated purposes of Lon Morris College of Jacksonville, Texas from 1847 to 1973. Histories and Journals of the period, records and publications of the school and other institutions, and oral interviews of persons involved in its development provide data for the study. As a historical analysis, the study is divided according to successive periods in the school's development.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Jones, Glendell A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Shakespearean alterations of John Philip Kemble (open access)

The Shakespearean alterations of John Philip Kemble

The practice of altering Shakespeare's plays, begun during the Restoration and continued throughout the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth, originated in continuously evolving literary and dramatic principles that went much deeper than the capricious whims of individual dramatists. Thus, each Shakespearean alterations in, perhaps, a century's time, a comparative study can provide some insight into the changing rules of dramatic valuation in the eighteenth century. Such a study is the purpose of this work, in which are examined the Shakespearean alterations of John Phillip Kemble. The sheer breadth of Kembles Shakespearean repertoire, his reputation among contemporary Shakespeare scholars and his renown for a quarter of a century as England's foremost Shakespearean dramatist and actor at both Drury Lane and Covent Garden all serve to emphasize the validity of such an undertaking.
Date: August 1979
Creator: White, Michael Weldon
System: The UNT Digital Library
DocumentUS (open access)

DocumentUS

DocumentUS is an original orchestra and choral composition by Stanley Garth Gibb, based on events in American history.
Date: December 1976
Creator: Gibb, Stanley Garth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leonardo Bruni and the Renaissance of history in Italian humanism (open access)

Leonardo Bruni and the Renaissance of history in Italian humanism

This dissertation assesses Leonardo Bruni as an individual in Renaissance Italy, analyzes the general contours of his humanism, and demonstrates the central role played by history in his thought. The sources used include manuscripts and printed editions if Bruni's works, the letters and works of his contemporaries, certain ancient and medieval works, and subsequent scholarship on the subject.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Blackman, Joseph Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
The influence of Stoicism on the Jacobean drama (open access)

The influence of Stoicism on the Jacobean drama

The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the Stoic influences in the Jacobean drama. Although the Stoic figure and references to Stoicism appear frequently in this drama, there has never been a comprehensive study of the Stoic element in the drama of this period. This study will fill this scholastic gap.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Wilson, Rodney Earl
System: The UNT Digital Library
A proposed strategy for reorganizing secondary school teacher preparation in Pakistan (open access)

A proposed strategy for reorganizing secondary school teacher preparation in Pakistan

In order to design an educational system that reflects Pakistani culture and ideology, teacher education programs must be developed which reflect the overall expectations by the country's various social, economic, and educational institutions. Such a program should take the lead in not only developing the educational system but also in establishing priorities in social, economic, and educational changes.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Khan, Ahmed Noor
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crusade for the faith: the Protestant fundamentalist movement in Texas (open access)

Crusade for the faith: the Protestant fundamentalist movement in Texas

This work provides a history of the Protestant fundamentalist movement in Texas, beginning with the 1890's and progressing to the 1970's, but it emphasizes the controversial decade of the 1920's. Although it is a narrative account it also attempts to analyze the reasons for the movement's development, while evaluating its impact on the state.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Ledbetter, Patsy S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Education on Ticuna Indian Culture: an Historical and Ethnographic Field Study (open access)

The Impact of Education on Ticuna Indian Culture: an Historical and Ethnographic Field Study

The purpose of this study were to provide fundamental ethnographic information about the Ticuna Indians and to determine to what extent the programs of bilingual education, administered among them by the Ministerio de Educación Pública del Perú and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), had accelerated their integration into mainstream Peruvian Life.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Sullivan, James Lamkin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding Sexuality: a Guide to Better Family Living (open access)

Understanding Sexuality: a Guide to Better Family Living

The problem of this study was to prepare a comprehensive family living textbook for use by high school students. The primary purposes of the study were the following: (1) to provide teenagers with factual information concerning sexuality which will better equip them to make responsible decisions; (2) to prepare young people to become better marriage partners, better parents and ultimately to produce stronger families for the future.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Grider, Sandra Davis
System: The UNT Digital Library