The Negro Appeal. (Baltimore and Annapolis, Md.), Vol. 1, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1900 (open access)

The Negro Appeal. (Baltimore and Annapolis, Md.), Vol. 1, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1900

Weekly African-American newspaper from Baltimore and Annapolis, Maryland that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 16, 1900
Creator: Tice, S. Timothy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Naming Commission - Final Report to Congress, Part II: U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval Academy (open access)

The Naming Commission - Final Report to Congress, Part II: U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Naval Academy

Report summarizing the recommendations of The Naming Commission's findings regarding military academies in the United States as mandated by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which mandates the removal of names, symbols, displays, monuments and paraphernalia that honor or commemorate the Confederate States of America. "Part II of the Naming Commission 's Final Report .... addresses assets on the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point and the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Annapolis." [Executive Summary, Page 2]
Date: August 2022
Creator: United States. Naming Commission.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Adrian Miller, August 3, 2001 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Adrian Miller, August 3, 2001

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Adrian Miller. Miller was born in Winamac, Indiana 16 November 1924 and graduated from high school in 1942. He entered the Army in March, 1944 and took his basic training at Ft. Blanding, Florida. He volunteered for the paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia and describes the six weeks of rigorous training, which included jumps. In November, he joined the 101st Army Airborne and was assigned to the 505th Parachute Infantry, Company H. Miller was sent to Bastogne and describes the conditions and the high casualty rate. After being relieved in January he went to Lorraine, France, then to Berchtesgaden, Germany where he met his brother. Miller was in Paris when Germany surrendered. On 15 December 1945, he returned to the United States on the Queen Mary. He was discharged January 1946.
Date: August 3, 2001
Creator: Miller, Adrian
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with E. B. Potter, October 8, 1994

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with E. B. "Ned" Potter, Navy WWII veteran from Norfolk, Virginia, who served in the intelligence section of the 14th Naval District. Potter discusses his education, teaching, commissioning into the Navy and training in communications, assignment to Oahu, codes and ciphers, interception, President Roosevelt's visit, WAVES, and leaving active duty at the end of the war and becoming a history professor. In appendix is a letter from Potter to Marcello with revisions to the interview.
Date: October 8, 1994
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Potter, E. B. (Ned)
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library