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An Analysis of Images in Mexican-American War Literature (open access)

An Analysis of Images in Mexican-American War Literature

Paper argues that John Frost’s pictorial images and narratives of Mexicans were used as historical justifications for the intervention into Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
Date: 2016
Creator: Rudy, Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Government's Girls: How the United States Government Used War Poster Art to Recruit Women to the Workforce During World War Two (open access)

The Government's Girls: How the United States Government Used War Poster Art to Recruit Women to the Workforce During World War Two

This paper discusses research on the recruitment of women via the medium of posters during World War Two (1941-1945).
Date: April 15, 2004
Creator: Pierce, Danielle; Way, Jennifer & Dupont, Jill
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refugee Representations: 1950s Non-Western/WWII Refugees in American Media with Smaller Circulation (open access)

Refugee Representations: 1950s Non-Western/WWII Refugees in American Media with Smaller Circulation

Paper explores refugee representations in the 1950s of non-western/World War II in American media, specifically “smaller circulation” media - local newspapers, academic studies, and governmental documents.
Date: 2017
Creator: Anderson, Tova
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Other Side: Fifteen Mexicans and an American (open access)

The Other Side: Fifteen Mexicans and an American

Paper argues that Albert C. Ramsey’s The Other Side: or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the U.S., a translation of a Mexican account of the war, Apuntes para la Historia de la Guerra entre M´ exico y los Estrados-Unidos depicts the Mexican perspective on the Mexican-American war to counter misrepresentations of Mexico by his American peers.
Date: 2016
Creator: Brand, Rebecca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compromise and Example: Continued Issues of Art Restitution and Holocaust-Era Looted Art (open access)

Compromise and Example: Continued Issues of Art Restitution and Holocaust-Era Looted Art

Paper examines the state of standards and legislation for handling restitution claims for artworks looting from victims during the Holocaust.
Date: 2017
Creator: Bellet, Caitlin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Silencing the Bells: A Statement of Power in Medieval Spain (open access)

Silencing the Bells: A Statement of Power in Medieval Spain

Paper examines the meaning of Christian church bells as a symbol of power in medieval Spain.
Date: 2010
Creator: Butler, Kelly Bevin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Illustrating American Power and Privilege: Images of Mexico as the Other in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70 (open access)

Illustrating American Power and Privilege: Images of Mexico as the Other in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70

Paper argues the images and text in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70 misrepresented Mexico to justify American imperialism.
Date: 2016
Creator: Tuley, Tiffany
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Image of Mexico in Letters from Mexico: Hegemonic Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century (open access)

The Image of Mexico in Letters from Mexico: Hegemonic Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century

Paper closely examines images and text in Mexico of To-day by Solomon Bulkley Griffin and discusses how the book demonstrates the United States' attitude towards Mexico during the late nineteenth century.
Date: 2016
Creator: Kim, Jungwan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hubert Howe Bancroft: Behind the Façade of Professional Historian (open access)

Hubert Howe Bancroft: Behind the Façade of Professional Historian

Paper explores the imagery and text coded with implications of the United States’ social dominance over Mexico in Hubert Howe Bancroft XVI's accounts of Texas history.
Date: 2016
Creator: Wilson, Hannah Joan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Erasing Mexico. Notes on the Upper Rio Grande: Documentation for the Sake of Future Exploitation (open access)

Erasing Mexico. Notes on the Upper Rio Grande: Documentation for the Sake of Future Exploitation

Paper examines the text and images in Bryant Tilden’s Notes on the Upper Rio Grande and analyzes how Mexicans are misrepresented in order to justify Manifest Destiny.
Date: 2016
Creator: Reyes, Christianna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
'Third World Artist': The Performance Art of Alexander Brener (open access)

'Third World Artist': The Performance Art of Alexander Brener

This paper discusses research on the performance art of Alexander Brener.
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Nersesova, Lisa & Way, Jennifer
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reviewing American Quilts: A Record of Women's Political Engagement (open access)

Reviewing American Quilts: A Record of Women's Political Engagement

This paper discusses research on American quilts and women's political engagement.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Sokolow, Sarah & Way, Jennifer
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photography in Colonial and Postcolonial India as an Agent of Cultural Dominance (open access)

Photography in Colonial and Postcolonial India as an Agent of Cultural Dominance

This paper discusses research on the use of photography in colonial India.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Joyce, Megan & Owen, Lisa N.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hanging on to Home: Representations of Handala and the Home (open access)

Hanging on to Home: Representations of Handala and the Home

Paper examines the subjective relationships between the Palestinians, the Israeli West Bank Barrier ( or the “Apartheid Wall”), Handala (a cartoon character created by Naji al-Ali), and the concept of home.
Date: 2012
Creator: Hyche, Breana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Eighteenth Century Worker: Goya's Tapestry Cartoons and the Influence of the Enlightenment

This paper discusses research on Francisco de Goya's Tapestry Cartoons and the influence of the enlightenment.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Thompson, Shana; Hopkins, Caitlin; England, Erin & Donahue-Wallace, Kelly, 1968-
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women and Printmaking: An Approach Informed by Gender and Technology Studies (open access)

Women and Printmaking: An Approach Informed by Gender and Technology Studies

Paper examines the history of women printmakers from an interdisciplinary perspective, identifying printmaking as an area of the humanities, while arguing for the benefits of this perspective for future research on the topic.
Date: 2010
Creator: Hirsch, Lauren
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

A King's Decapitation

This paper presents research on Francisco de Goya. This research proves that the painting of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) from 1800 ('The Cannibals), and his paintings from 1820-1823 (The Black Paintings, 'Judith,' and 'Saturn,' and Miniature, 'Judith') represent changing ideas on decapitation of a monarch.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Palyu, Cheryl & Donahue-Wallace, Kelly, 1968-
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hitler as Sculptor: Molding Germany’s Collective Memory of “Degenerate” Art (open access)

Hitler as Sculptor: Molding Germany’s Collective Memory of “Degenerate” Art

Paper discusses the 1937 National Socialist exhibition “Entartete Kunst,” (Degenerate Art) and the ways it influenced the German public’s perceptions of the art displayed, as well as the cultural memory of modern art in general.
Date: 2012
Creator: Warner, Tory
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dis/Appearance, In/Visibility and the Transitioning Body on Social Media: A Post-Qualitative and Multimodal Inquiry (open access)

Dis/Appearance, In/Visibility and the Transitioning Body on Social Media: A Post-Qualitative and Multimodal Inquiry

Text component of a doctoral dissertation, which references the full dissertation content in a multi-media web-based format. It includes a background statement, acknowledgements section, printed navigation guide and site map for the website, and a full list of references.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Jenkins, Kevin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Honey, Ain’t You Glad We’re Texan: The Mythic Narrative of Texas in the Texas Centennial (open access)

Honey, Ain’t You Glad We’re Texan: The Mythic Narrative of Texas in the Texas Centennial

Paper explores how the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 was used to build the mythology of a unified Texas identity and history.
Date: 2016
Creator: Wilson, Hannah Joan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library