Texas Events Calendar, Spring 2023 (open access)

Texas Events Calendar, Spring 2023

Quarterly magazine listing upcoming events occurring within different regions of Texas such as concerts, stand up comedy, art shows, and market days.
Date: Spring 2023
Creator: Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eagles Overhead: the History of US Air Force Forward Air Controllers, from the Meuse-Argonne to Mosul

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US Air Force Forward Air Controllers (FACs) bridge the gap between air and land power. They operate in the grey area of the battlefield, serving as an aircrew who flies above the battlefield, spots the enemy, and relays targeting information to control close air support attacks by other faster aircraft. When done well, Air Force FACs are the fulcrum for successful employment of air power in support of ground forces. Unfortunately, FACs in recent times have been shunned by both ground and air forces, their mission complicated by inherent difficulty and danger, as well as by the vicissitudes of defense budgets, technology, leadership, bureaucracy, and doctrine. Eagles Overhead is the first complete historical survey of the US Air Force FAC program from its origins in World War I to the modern battlefield. Matt Dietz examines their role, status, and performance in every US Air Force air campaign from the Marne in 1918, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and finally Mosul in 2017. With the remaking of the post-Vietnam US military, and the impact of those changes on FAC, the Air Force began a steady neglect of the FAC mission from Operation Desert Storm, through the force reductions after …
Date: February 2023
Creator: Dietz, Matt,
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Weekly War: How the Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I

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An elite team of reporters brought the Great War home each week to ten million readers of The Saturday Evening Post. As America’s largest circulation magazine, the Post hired the nation’s best-known and best-paid writers to cover World War I. The Weekly War provides a history of the unique record Post storytellers created of World War I, the distinct imprint the Post made on the field of war reporting, and the ways in which Americans witnessed their first world war. The Weekly War includes representative articles from across the span of the conflict, and Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy complement these works with essays about the history and significance of the magazine, the war, and the writers. By the start of the Great War, The Saturday Evening Post had become the most successful and influential magazine in the United States, a source of entertainment, instruction, and news, as well as a shared experience. World War I served as a four-year experiment in how to report a modern war. The news-gathering strategies and news-controlling practices developed in this war were largely duplicated in World War II and later wars. Over the course of some thousand articles by some of the most …
Date: April 2023
Creator: Dubbs, Chris & Edy, Carolyn M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

CEDAR: The Life and Music of Cedar Walton

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Grammy Award–winning pianist, bandleader, and composer Cedar Walton (1934–2013) is a major figure in jazz, associated with a variety of styles from bebop to funk and famous for composing several standards. Born and raised in Dallas, Walton studied music in Denver, where he jammed with musicians such as Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. In 1955, Walton moved to New York, immediately gaining recognition from notable musicians and nightclub proprietors. When Walton returned to the U.S. after serving abroad in the Army, he joined Benny Golson and Art Farmer’s Jazztet. Later, he became both pianist and arranger for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Next, he worked as part of Prestige Records’s house rhythm section, recording with numerous greats and releasing his own albums. One hallmark of Walton’s impact is his numerous long-term collaborations with giants such as trombonist Curtis Fuller and drummer Billy Higgins. By the end of his career, Walton’s discography, as both band member and bandleader, included many dozens of vaunted recordings with some of the most notable jazz musicians of the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Ben Markley conducted more than seventy-five interviews with friends and family members, musicians who played with or were otherwise …
Date: May 2023
Creator: Ben Markley
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 2021 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 2021

Weekly newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 11, 2021
Creator: Hilley, Kevin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 2021 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 7, 2021

Weekly newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 7, 2021
Creator: Hilley, Kevin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 55, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 2020 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 55, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 23, 2020
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 2020 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 6, 2020
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Oral History Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, February 14, 2023

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Interview with Marilyn Gibson Calhoun, a UNT graduate from Dallas, Texas. Calhoun discusses her education, family, involvement with the civil rights movement, support and community groups that formed among African-American students that were experiencing discrimination at North Texas State, her teaching career, family, going through breast cancer, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Remembering Black Dallas group.
Date: February 14, 2023
Creator: Burns, Regina L. & Calhoun, Marilyn Gibson
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 2022 (open access)

Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 35, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Weekly newspaper from Elgin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 31, 2022
Creator: Hodges, Julianne
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 2022 (open access)

The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 2022

Weekly newspaper from Schulenburg, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 11, 2022
Creator: Prause, Diane & Vyvjala, Darrell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 2022 (open access)

The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 2022

Weekly newspaper from Schulenburg, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 7, 2022
Creator: Prause, Diane & Vyvjala, Darrell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 23, 2022 (open access)

Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Weekly newspaper from Elgin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 23, 2022
Creator: Hodges, Julianne
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 2022 (open access)

The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 128, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 2022

Weekly newspaper from Schulenburg, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 13, 2022
Creator: Prause, Diane & Vyvjala, Darrell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 131, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 28, 2021 (open access)

Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 131, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Weekly newspaper from Elgin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 28, 2021
Creator: Hodges, Julianne
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 11, 2020 (open access)

Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 46, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Elgin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 11, 2020
Creator: Hodges, Julianne
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 2020 (open access)

The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 17, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Schulenburg, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 17, 2020
Creator: Prause, Diane & Vyvjala, Darrell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 2020 (open access)

The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Schulenburg, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 3, 2020
Creator: Prause, Diane & Vyvjala, Darrell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crosby County News (Ralls, Tex.), Vol. 133, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 2020 (open access)

Crosby County News (Ralls, Tex.), Vol. 133, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Ralls, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 9, 2020
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
College of Music Program Book 2021-2022: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 2 (open access)

College of Music Program Book 2021-2022: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 2

Ensemble performances program book from the 2021-2022 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date: 2022
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2021-2022: Student Performances, Volume 1 (open access)

College of Music Program Book 2021-2022: Student Performances, Volume 1

Student performances program book from the 2021-2022 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date: 2022
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Soul Serenade: King Curtis and His Immortal Saxophone

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Although in 2000 he became the first sideman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, “King Curtis” Ousley never lived to accept his award. Tragically, he was murdered outside his New York City home in 1971. At that moment, thirty-seven-year-old King Curtis was widely regarded as the greatest R & B saxophone player of all time. He also may have been the most prolific, having recorded with well over two hundred artists during an eighteen-year span. Soul Serenade is the definitive biography of one of the most influential musicians of the 50s, 60s, and early 70s. Timothy R. Hoover chronicles King Curtis’s meteoric rise from a humble Texas farm to the recording studios of Memphis, Muscle Shoals, and New York City as well as to some of the world’s greatest music stages, including the Apollo Theatre, Fillmore West, and Montreux Jazz Festival. Curtis’s “chicken-scratch” solos on the Coasters’ Yakety Yak changed the role of the saxophone in rock & roll forever. His band opened for the Beatles at their famous Shea Stadium concert in 1965. He also backed his “little sister” and close friend Aretha Franklin on nearly all of her tours and Atlantic Records productions from 1967 …
Date: October 2022
Creator: Hoover, Timothy R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thinking Outside the Pipe: The Role of Participatory Water Ethics and Watershed Education Community Action Networks (WE CANs) in the Creation of a New Urban Water Narrative (open access)

Thinking Outside the Pipe: The Role of Participatory Water Ethics and Watershed Education Community Action Networks (WE CANs) in the Creation of a New Urban Water Narrative

According to the United Nations, two-thirds of the world's population, approximately 4 billion people, experiences water scarcity at least one month per year. To avoid the water quantity crisis experienced in many regions of the world and the United States, a path to sustainability must be forged. My research aims to identify and critique the salient features of the narrative that drives contemporary urban water decisions and practices and to provide a meta-narrative about the role of narratives as invisible lenses through which individuals see, interpret, and interact with the world often without realizing the existence of those frames. The purpose of this problem-oriented dissertation is twofold: to provide a philosophical policy analysis of contemporary water issues in the United States generally and North Central Texas in particular, and to offer a pragmatic and interdisciplinary approach to discovering a sustainable relationship to water. The intent of my research is not to produce a new metaphysical understanding of water, but to provide a pragmatic application of ideas that can be utilized in the field; ideas that can invoke a new narrative, vision, and direction for urban water issues in North Central Texas and in areas far beyond the Lone Star State. …
Date: December 2022
Creator: Moss, Teresa Jo
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 2020 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 2020

Triweekly newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 29, 2020
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History