Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 253, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 8, 2012 (open access)

Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 253, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 8, 2012

Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 8, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Law Review, Volume 91, Number 1, November 2012 (open access)

Texas Law Review, Volume 91, Number 1, November 2012

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases. Topics in this issue covers an address by Justice John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court's contemporary silver platter doctrine, how the first amendment destabilizes the second, defense witness immunity, and technology at the Supreme Court.
Date: November 2012
Creator: Texas Law Review Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 47, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 21, 2012 (open access)

Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 47, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Weekly newspaper from Palacios, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 21, 2012
Creator: West, Bert
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance

Report that discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government. Election fraud and corruption in Afghanistan are also discussed.
Date: November 30, 2012
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance

This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date: November 30, 2012
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 2012 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Friday, November 30, 2012

Daily newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 30, 2012
Creator: Bright, James
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 98, No. 70, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 2012 (open access)

The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 98, No. 70, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 2012

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: November 29, 2012
Creator: Ellisor, Laney
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 92, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 2012 (open access)

The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 92, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 29, 2012

Weekly newspaper from Tulsa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 29, 2012
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Monitor (Mabank, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 30, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 25, 2012 (open access)

The Monitor (Mabank, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 30, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 25, 2012

Semi-weekly newspaper from Mabank, Texas that includes local Cedar Creek Lake area, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 25, 2012
Creator: Cantrell, Pearl
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 90, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 10, 2012 (open access)

The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 90, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 10, 2012

Semi-weekly newspaper from Gilmer, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 10, 2012
Creator: Overton, Mac
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 2012 (open access)

Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 2012

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 22, 2012
Creator: Samuels, Jeanne F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as a Fishing Community (open access)

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as a Fishing Community

From introduction and purpose: This report describes the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) as a fishing community. We have tried to strike a balance between the report being concise enough to be useful while covering the full range of topics and issues necessary to describe CNMI as a fishing community...This report will be updated periodically as social, economic, and environmental conditions change and fishermen and fisheries management adapt to those changes.
Date: November 2012
Creator: Allen, Stewart D. & Amesbury, Judith R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 88, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 18, 2012 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 88, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 18, 2012

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 18, 2012
Creator: Reddell, Valerie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nation’s largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city. Prominent historical figures who have brushed shoulders with Houston’s Finest over the past 175 years include Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, O. Henry, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hatchet wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, the Hilton Siamese Twins, blues musician Leadbelly, oilman Silver Dollar Jim West, and many others. The Houston Police Department was one of the first cities in the South to adopt fingerprinting as an identification system and use the polygraph test, and under the leadership of its first African American police chief, Lee Brown, put the theory of neighborhood oriented policing into practice in the 1980s. The force has been embroiled in controversy and high profile criminal cases as well. Among the cases chronicled in the book are …
Date: November 15, 2012
Creator: Roth, Mitchel P.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library