"The Best Stuff Which the State Affords": a Portrait of the Fourteenth Texas Infantry in the Civil War (open access)

"The Best Stuff Which the State Affords": a Portrait of the Fourteenth Texas Infantry in the Civil War

This study examines the social and economic characteristics of the men who joined the Confederate Fourteenth Texas Infantry Regiment during the Civil War and provides a narrative history of the regiment's wartime service. The men of the Fourteenth Infantry enlisted in 1862 and helped to turn back the Federal Red River Campaign in April 1864. In creating a portrait of these men, the author used traditional historical sources (letters, diaries, medical records, secondary narratives) as well as statistical data from the 1860 United States census, military service records, and state tax rolls. The thesis places the heretofore unknown story of the Fourteenth Texas Infantry within the overall body of Civil War historiography.
Date: December 1998
Creator: Parker, Scott Dennis
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Making a Good Soldier: a Historical and Quantitative Study of the 15th Texas Infantry, C. S. A. (open access)

Making a Good Soldier: a Historical and Quantitative Study of the 15th Texas Infantry, C. S. A.

In late 1861, the Confederate Texas government commissioned Joseph W. Speight to raise an infantry battalion. Speight's Battalion became the Fifteenth Texas Infantry in April 1862, and saw almost no action for the next year as it marched throughout Texas, Arkansas, and the Indian Territory. In May 1863 the regiment was ordered to Louisiana and for the next seven months took an active role against Federal troops in the bayou country. From March to May 1864 the unit helped turn away the Union Red River Campaign. The regiment remained in the trans-Mississippi region until it disbanded in May 1865. The final chapter quantifies age, family status, wealthholdings, and casualties among the regiment's members.
Date: December 1998
Creator: Hamaker, Blake Richard
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 203, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1998 (open access)

The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 203, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1998

Weekly newspaper from Sulphur Springs, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 18, 1998
Creator: Keys, Scott & Lamb, Bill
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
External Factors and Ethnic Mobilization : A Global Study of the Causes of Military Mobilization among Ethnic Groups, 1945-1995 (open access)

External Factors and Ethnic Mobilization : A Global Study of the Causes of Military Mobilization among Ethnic Groups, 1945-1995

The main purposes of this study are to elaborate on the concept of ethnic military mobilization and to identify the factors that contribute to its occurrence.
Date: December 1998
Creator: Nejad, Jalal K. (Jalal Komeili)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Reading of Shakespeare's Problem Plays into History: A New Historicist Interpretation of Social Crisis and Sexual Politics in Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure (open access)

A Reading of Shakespeare's Problem Plays into History: A New Historicist Interpretation of Social Crisis and Sexual Politics in Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure

This study is aimed to read Shakespeare's problem comedies, Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure into the historical and cultural context of dynamically-changing English Renaissance society at the turn of the sixteenth century. In the historical context of emerging capitalism, growing economic crisis, reformed theology, changing social hierarchy, and increasing sexual control, this study investigates the nature of complicated moral problems that the plays consistently present. The primary argument is that the serious and dark picture of human dilemma is attributed not to Shakespeare's private imagination, but to social, political, economic, and religious crises in early modern England.
Date: December 1998
Creator: Jin, Kwang Hyun
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 77, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1998 (open access)

The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 77, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1998

Weekly newspaper from Tulsa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 24, 1998
Creator: Grant-Montgomery, Risha
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Musical Borrowing: Referential Treatment in American Popular Music (open access)

Musical Borrowing: Referential Treatment in American Popular Music

This thesis examines the relationships between popular contemporary musical styles and classic-era art music. Analysis of pop-rock songs, and their referential treatment in art rock, classical music, and society will be examined. Pop-rock musicians borrow from the masters of the past and from each other. Rock guitarists such as Eddie Van Halen employ a virtuosic technique suggestive of Liszt and Paganini. The group Rush borrowed freely from opera seria. Frank Zappa referenced contemporary musicians as well as classical techniques. Referential treatment in popular music and the recent advancements in technology, have challenged copyright law. How these treatments and technologies affect copyright legislators and musicians will be discussed.
Date: December 1998
Creator: DiGiallonardo, Richard L. (Richard Lee)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Exploratory Investigation of the Origins and Regulatory Actions of the United Kingdom's Financial Reporting Review Panel (open access)

An Exploratory Investigation of the Origins and Regulatory Actions of the United Kingdom's Financial Reporting Review Panel

In 1990, the accounting profession and the British government worked together to establish a new regulatory framework for financial reporting in the United Kingdom (UK), the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and its two subsidiaries, the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) and the Financial Reporting Review Panel (FRRP). The FRRP enforces companies' compliance with the ASB's accounting standards and the accounting provisions of the UK Companies Act. Only one study, Brandt et al. (1997), has examined the activities and effectiveness of the FRRP. This dissertation attempts to extend Brandt et. al (1997) and add to understanding of the origins and regulatory actions of the FRRP.
Date: December 1998
Creator: Styles, Alan K. (Alan Keith)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mannford Star (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 23, 1998 (open access)

The Mannford Star (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 23, 1998

Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 23, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Opened Letter: Rereading Hawthorne (open access)

The Opened Letter: Rereading Hawthorne

The recent publication of the bulk of Hawthorne's letters has precipitated this study, which deals with Hawthorne's creative and subversive narration and his synchronic appeal to a variety of readers possessing different tastes. The author initially investigates Hawthorne's religion and demonstrate how he disguised his personal religious convictions, ambiguously using the intellectual categories of Calvinism, Unitarianism, and spiritualism to promote his own humanistic "religion." Hawthorne's appropriation of the jeremiad further illustrates his emphasis on religion and narration. Although his religion remained humanistic, he readily used the old Puritan political sermon to describe and defend his own financial hardships. That jeremiad outlook has significant implications for his art.
Date: December 1998
Creator: Smith, Grace Elizabeth
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1998 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1998

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 17, 1998
Creator: Wisch, J. A. & Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 255, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1998 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 255, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1998

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 1998
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1998 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1998

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 25, 1998
Creator: Dobbs, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1998 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 31, 1998

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 31, 1998
Creator: Horn, Richard A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 243, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 23, 1998 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 243, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 23, 1998

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 23, 1998
Creator: Cole, Carol
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 102, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1998 (open access)

Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 102, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1998

Semi-weekly newspaper from Livingston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 24, 1998
Creator: White, Barbara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 43, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 20, 1998 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 43, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 20, 1998

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 20, 1998
Creator: Dobbs, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 55, No. 12, Ed. 1, December 1998 (open access)

The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 55, No. 12, Ed. 1, December 1998

Monthly newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes news and information about the Churches of Christ along with advertising.
Date: December 1998
Creator: McBride, Bailey & Shipp, Glover
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gayly Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 1, 1998 (open access)

The Gayly Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 1, 1998

Semi-monthly newspaper from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: December 1, 1998
Creator: Hawkins, Don
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gender of Time in the Eighteenth-century English Novel (open access)

The Gender of Time in the Eighteenth-century English Novel

This study takes a structuralist approach to the development of the novel, arguing that eighteenth-century writers build progressive narrative by rendering abstract, then conflating, literary theories of gendered time that originate in the Renaissance with seventeenth-century scientific theories of motion. I argue that writers from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century generate and regulate progress-as-product in their narratives through gendered constructions of time that corresponded to the generation and regulation of economic, political, and social progress brought about by developing capitalism.
Date: December 1998
Creator: Leissner, Debra Holt
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library