Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department

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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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2012-2013, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2012-2013, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2012-2013, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Texas Tech University
System: The Portal to Texas History
College of Music Program Book 2011-2012: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 1 (open access)

College of Music Program Book 2011-2012: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 1

Ensemble performances program book from the 2011-2012 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date: 2012
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Catalog of Howard Payne University, 2012-2013 (open access)

Catalog of Howard Payne University, 2012-2013

Catalog describes the history, governance, admission requirements, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: June 1, 2012
Creator: Howard Payne University
System: The Portal to Texas History
Essentials of Texas Water Resources: 2nd Edition (open access)

Essentials of Texas Water Resources: 2nd Edition

Book outlining specific case law and issues related to water resources according to the Texas legal code.
Date: 2012
Creator: State Bar of Texas. Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Women and the Texas Revolution

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While there is wide scholarship on the Texas Revolution, there is no comparable volume on the role of women during that conflict. Most of the many works on the Texas Revolution include women briefly in the narrative, such as Emily Austin, Suzanna Dickinson, and Emily Morgan West (the Yellow Rose), but not as principal participants. Women and the Texas Revolution explores these women in much more depth, in addition to covering the women and children who fled Santa Anna’s troops in the Runaway Scrape, and examining the roles and issues facing Native American, Black, and Hispanic women of the time. Like the American Revolution, women’s experiences in the Texas Revolution varied tremendously by class, religion, race, and region. While the majority of immigrants into Texas in the 1820s and 1830s were men, many were women who accompanied their husbands and families or, in some instances, braved the dangers and the hardships of the frontier alone. Black, Hispanic, and Native American women were also present in Mexican Texas. Whether Mexican loyalist or Texas patriot, elite planter or subsistence farm wife, slaveholder or slave, Anglo or black, women helped settle the Texas frontier and experienced the uncertainty, hardships, successes, and sorrows of …
Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Scheer, Mary L.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Charles Weldon Burgoon, May 23, 2012

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Interview with Charles Weldon Burgoon, life-time Denton resident and owner of Weldon's Saddle Shop. The interview includes Burgoon's experiences as a child in Denton, his genealogy, and Denton city and country history. Burgoon gives details about area rodeos, schooling in Denton, his summer job mowing lawns, experience with country living, and other various jobs including leather-working and tooling. He talks about the lack of shotgun shells and metal bathtubs during the Second World War, the courtship and marriage of his wife, the Cowboy Turtle Association, selling hand-made goods at rodeos, the Dallas Sportatorium, and professional wrestling. The interview also includes the opening of Burgoon's saddle shop and western store, Harpool's Farm Store, changes in his saddle shop, and the involvement of his daughter in the saddle shop. Burgoon talks about his son's college years and move to California, rental properties and the effect of the recession, and his thoughts on work ethic. It includes an appendix with photographs, a list detailing the images, and an article on The North Texas State Fair and Rodeo.
Date: May 23, 2012
Creator: Fox, Lisa A. & Burgoon, Charles Weldon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brownfield Yellow Pages (open access)

Brownfield Yellow Pages

Yellow Pages directory distributed to and serving the communities of Ausborne, Meadow, Ropesville, Union, and Wheatley.
Date: 2012
Creator: Windstream
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican-American Custom Cars

this book discusses the Mexican-American lowrider car culture and its relation to politics and culture.
Date: 2012
Creator: Chappell, Ben
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cistercian Preparatory Schools: The First 50 Years (open access)

Cistercian Preparatory Schools: The First 50 Years

Book containing the history of the Cisercian Preparatory School, often presented through the memories of faculty and alumni.
Date: 2012
Creator: Stewart, David E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denver City Yellow Pages (open access)

Denver City Yellow Pages

Yellow pages directory distributed to and serving the communities of Denver City, Seagraves, Plains, Higginbotham, and Loop.
Date: 2012
Creator: Windstream
System: The Portal to Texas History
Littlefield Yellow Pages (open access)

Littlefield Yellow Pages

Directory distributed to and serving the communities of Littlefield, Amherst, Anton, Bovina, Bula, Earth, Fieldton, Friona, Hub, Lariat, Lazbuddie, Needmore, Olton, Parmer, Muleshoe, Spade, Springlake, Sudan, Tharp, and Whitharral. It includes local information and government listings, local telephone numbers, and classified listings.
Date: 2012
Creator: Windstream
System: The Portal to Texas History
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 6, Pages 4697 to 5673, April 30 - May 22, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 6, Pages 4697 to 5673, April 30 - May 22, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: May 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 7, Pages 5674 to 6652, May 23 - June 15, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 7, Pages 5674 to 6652, May 23 - June 15, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: June 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 3, Pages 1878 to 2785, February 21 - March 16, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 3, Pages 1878 to 2785, February 21 - March 16, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: March 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 1, Pages 1 to 936, January 3 - February 3, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 1, Pages 1 to 936, January 3 - February 3, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: February 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 15, Pages 11965 to 12845, October 1 - October 12, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 15, Pages 11965 to 12845, October 1 - October 12, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: October 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 11, Pages 8850 to 9847, July 30 - August 17, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 11, Pages 8850 to 9847, July 30 - August 17, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: August 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 10, Pages 7936 to [8849], July 13 - July 27, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 10, Pages 7936 to [8849], July 13 - July 27, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: July 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 5, Pages 3728 to 4696, April 9 - April 27, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 5, Pages 3728 to 4696, April 9 - April 27, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: April 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 12, Pages 9848 to 10799, August 20 - August 31, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 12, Pages 9848 to 10799, August 20 - August 31, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: August 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 1, Pages 1 to 936, January 3 - February 3, 2012 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 27, No. 1, Pages 1 to 936, January 3 - February 3, 2012

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: February 2012
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library