Video recording of interview with John Murphy, UNT professor of jazz studies. Murphy discusses his youth in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1960s and 1970s including his music education at Baltimore County Public Schools, and the musical influence of the Left Bank Jazz Society; His experience as a UNT student in the jazz studies and music theory programs (1981-1986); playing saxophone in the One O’clock Lab Band and at venues around Denton; His research as an ethnomusicologist studying Cuban and Brazilian music and work as a professor at Western Illinois University (1992-2001) then the University of North Texas (2001-2020) where he served in faculty and administrative roles to further develop the jazz studies program and help preserve the program’s history.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Alan Pilot. Pilot joined the Army in January 1943 and received basic training at Camp Howze. He received further training in Louisiana for the European Theater and then in California for the Pacific Theater. In January he left for Camp Old Gold at La Havre, where he served as a combat medic, supporting Companies E, G, and H of the 343rd Infantry, 86th Division. His unit relieved the 8th Division and fought in Cologne, where he was stationed at the top of the cathedral while it was being shelled. In the Ruhr Pocket a defective shell landed 10 feet away from him. He recalls seeing 100,000 Germans surrender there. He describes the Bavarian people as friendly as he passed through Austria on VE Day. He was then sent to the Pacific as part of Operation Coronet. VJ Day came while he was still crossing the Pacific. He spent the last five months of his service in the Philippines at a quiet outpost while the rest of his unit prepared the Philippines for independence. Pilot returned home and was discharged in January 1946.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Alan Pilot. Pilot joined the Army in January 1943 and received basic training at Camp Howze. He received further training in Louisiana for the European Theater and then in California for the Pacific Theater. In January he left for Camp Old Gold at La Havre, where he served as a combat medic, supporting Companies E, G, and H of the 343rd Infantry, 86th Division. His unit relieved the 8th Division and fought in Cologne, where he was stationed at the top of the cathedral while it was being shelled. In the Ruhr Pocket a defective shell landed 10 feet away from him. He recalls seeing 100,000 Germans surrender there. He describes the Bavarian people as friendly as he passed through Austria on VE Day. He was then sent to the Pacific as part of Operation Coronet. VJ Day came while he was still crossing the Pacific. He spent the last five months of his service in the Philippines at a quiet outpost while the rest of his unit prepared the Philippines for independence. Pilot returned home and was discharged in January 1946.

Transcript for A. J. Underwood diary, December 16th, 1861 to December 18th, 1862, detailing military fellows, role as a sharpshooter, friends, daily activities, correspondences, and transactions. This item (p. 102-193) covers September 15th through December 18th, 1862.

Weekly African-American newspaper from Baltimore and Annapolis, Maryland that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.

Interview with Laura Miller, a consultant for the Texas Clean Energy project. The interview includes discussion of her youth, education, and career as a journalist and mayor of Dallas, Texas.

State Input - Letter from several senators and representatives to Chairman Principi accompany a full report with tabs outlining the ideas of each of the aforementioned legislators regarding the future of Maryland's military installations. Also contains testimony from each legislator.

Regional Hearing Transcript - Baltimore, MD, May 4, 1995. (Box 149)

Army - Ft. Ritchie, MD, May 1995 Base Visit. Box 81, L-003.

Executive Correspondence – Letters to Chairman Principi from University of Maryland concerning Fort Monmouth. Also included: testimony Aberdeen Proving Ground, testimony Fort Mead 7-8-2005, and testimony MD National Guard 7-8-2005

This dissertation is a study of the State of Maryland in the secession crisis of 1860-1861. Previous historians have emphasized economic, political, societal, and geographical considerations as the reasons Maryland remained loyal to the Union. However, not adequately considered is the manner in which Maryland understood and reacted to the secession of the Lower South. Historians have tended to portray Maryland's inaction as inevitable and reasonable. This study offers another reason for Maryland's inaction by placing the state in time and space, following where the sources lead, and allowing for contingency. No one in Maryland could have known that their state would not secede in 1860-61. Seeing the crisis through their eyes is instructive. It becomes clear that Maryland was a state on the brink of secession, but its resentment, suspicion, and anger toward the Lower South isolated it from the larger secession movement. Marylanders regarded the Lower South's rush to separate as precipitous, dangerous, and coercive to the Old Line State. A focus on a single state like Maryland allows a deeper, richer understanding of the dynamics, forces, and characteristics of the secession movement and the federal government's response to it. It cuts through the larger debates about the …

ARD Detachment, Naval Surface Weapons Center Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division Detachment Annapolis, Naval Surface Weapons Center Carderock Philadelphia Detachment. Military Value data call, Special Facilities and Equipment Capability. Box 181, L-113.

Interview with Lewis R. Hopkins, a pilot during World War II. He describes growing up on a farm in Georgia, going to college at Berry, and working for Sears, Roebuck, and the Royal Typewriter Company before joining the U. S. Navy. He tells an anecdote about joining the navy so he could go to New York to see the World's Fair, since he had heard the Atlanta Reserve would be making a trip to the Fair. He began flight training in Florida in December 1940, finished the next September, then drove cross-country to San Francisco after the Pearl Harbor attack. He eventually joined the USS Enterprise in April 1942 and saw the B-25 bombers in the Doolittle Raid take off. He was part of Bombing Squadron Six and trained under Commander Best to learn how to do scouting flights, navigation, and dive bombing. He then describes his participation in the Battle of Midway, the hours before take-off, his first view of the Japanese fleet, and his bombing mission. He was later assigned to the USS Hornet and had to fly off to a little island so that planes from the USS Wasp could land on the Hornet after their ship …

Data Calls 1995 - United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. Environmental, Military Value, Capacity Analysis, Construction Costs, General Installation Info. Box 190, L-132.

Regional Hearing - 5 - A. Baltimore, MD - May 4, 1995. Box 92, L-014.

Book describing the history of the U.S. Navy facility at Indian Head, Maryland, which researches, develops, tests, and evaluates chemical compounds used in gun and rocket propellants as well as cockpit ejection seats. "It is the story of how an institution adapted to changes in military technology, the individuals who shaped it, and the heritage they built" (front cover flap).

Fort Richie, Maryland - Contains materials used by the Commission for analysis (Box 17)

ARD Detachment, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carederock Division Detachment Annapolis, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Philadelphia Detachment. Military Value data call 66. Box 181, L-113.

ARD Detachment, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division Detachment Annapolis, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Philadelphia Detachment. Data Call 64. Box 181, L-113.

Nineteen papers presented at the Conference on the Transport of Radionuclides in Fresh Water Systems are given. Separate abstracts were prepared for 18 papers; one was previously abstracted for NSA. (M.C.G.)

Data Call - Naval Air Warfare Center, Patuxent River, MD. Part 2 of 3. Box 174, L-106.