"Peculiarly Situated Between Rebellion and Loyalty": Civilized Tribes, Savagery, and the American Civil War (open access)

"Peculiarly Situated Between Rebellion and Loyalty": Civilized Tribes, Savagery, and the American Civil War

Article discusses the concept of "savagism" in the context of participation of the "Five Civilized Tribes" in the Civil War. Tom L. Franzmann investigates details and accounts of brutal practices conducted by both white and American Indian soldiers during the war and deconstructs the ideas that perpetrated society during the time.
Date: Summer 1998
Creator: Franzmann, Tom L.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
With Folded Arms? Or with Squirrel Guns? The IWW and the Green Corn Rebellion (open access)

With Folded Arms? Or with Squirrel Guns? The IWW and the Green Corn Rebellion

Article discusses the uprising that became known as the Green Corn Rebellion, an organization of tenant farmers in the Working Class Union to protest draft laws. Nigel Sellars examines its lack of connection with the Industrial Workers of the World despite public anti-radicalist assumptions.
Date: Summer 1999
Creator: Sellars, Nigel Anthony
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Crossing the Pond: The Native American Effort in World War II (open access)

Crossing the Pond: The Native American Effort in World War II

A non-fiction book about Native Americans serving in the military during World War II, as well as Native American efforts on the home-front. The book also chronicles attempts by Nazi propagandists to exploit Native Americans for the Third Reich, and the postwar experiences of Native Americans. Includes photographs of Native American civilians and military personnel. Index starts on page 219.
Date: 1999
Creator: Franco, Jere' Bishop
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 3, Ed. 1, Monday, October 20, 1997 (open access)

War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 3, Ed. 1, Monday, October 20, 1997

Weekly student newspaper from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 20, 1997
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
McMurry War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 9, Ed. 1, Wednesday, March 24, 1999 (open access)

McMurry War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 9, Ed. 1, Wednesday, March 24, 1999

Weekly student newspaper from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: March 24, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
McMurry War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 7, Ed. 1, Wednesday, February 11, 1998 (open access)

McMurry War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 7, Ed. 1, Wednesday, February 11, 1998

Weekly student newspaper from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: February 11, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Many Battles of Glorieta Pass: Struggles for the Integrity of a Civil War Battlefield (open access)

The Many Battles of Glorieta Pass: Struggles for the Integrity of a Civil War Battlefield

This study focuses on modern-day attempts to preserve the site where Union volunteers from Colorado defeated a Confederate army from Texas at the 1862 Battle of Glorieta Pass to curtail Confederate expansion westward. When construction workers in 1987 accidently uncovered remains of the war dead, a second battle of Glorieta Pass ensued. Texas and New Mexico officials quarreled over jurisdiction of the war casualties. Eventually Congress authorized the National Park Service to expand the Pecos National Park through purchase and donation of land to include the battlesite. Sources include local records, newspapers, federal and state documents, and interviews with preservation participants.
Date: August 1999
Creator: Hull, William Edward, 1945-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
McMurry University War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 11, Ed. 1, Monday, February 22, 1993 (open access)

McMurry University War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 11, Ed. 1, Monday, February 22, 1993

Weekly student newspaper from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: February 22, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas in the Civil War: Comfort's Monument Story (open access)

Texas in the Civil War: Comfort's Monument Story

Book containing information about the Civil War in Texas, including the story of the Nueces Massacre and oral histories from individuals living in Texas during the Civil War. The index begins on page 64.
Date: 1997
Creator: Stewart, Mike & Stewart, Anne
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
McMurry University War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 13, Ed. 1, Monday, April 5, 1993 (open access)

McMurry University War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 13, Ed. 1, Monday, April 5, 1993

Weekly student newspaper from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: April 5, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
McMurry University War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 2, Ed. 1, Monday, September 6, 1993 (open access)

McMurry University War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 2, Ed. 1, Monday, September 6, 1993

Weekly student newspaper from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: September 6, 1993
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Progressivism/Prohibition and War: Texas, 1914-1918 (open access)

Progressivism/Prohibition and War: Texas, 1914-1918

This thesis focuses upon the impact of war upon the progressive movement in Texas during 1914-1918. Chapter I defines progressivism in Texas and presents an overview of the political situation in the state as relating to the period. Chapter II discusses the negative impact that the first two years of World War I had upon the reform movement. Chapter III examines the revival of the Anti-Saloon League and the 1916 Democratic state convention. Chapter IV covers the war between James E. Ferguson and the University of Texas. Chapter V tells how the European war became a catalyst for the reform movement in Texas following America's entry, and its subsequent influence upon the election of 1918. Chapter VI concludes that James E. Ferguson's war with the University of Texas as well as World War I were responsible for the prohibitionist victory in the election of 1918.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Antle, Michael Lee
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Now the Wolf Has Come: The Civilian Civil War in the Indian Territory (open access)

Now the Wolf Has Come: The Civilian Civil War in the Indian Territory

Article provides documentation of personal experiences from those living in Indian Territory during the Civil War to illustrate its disastrous effects on the lives of individual citizens.
Date: Spring 1993
Creator: Warde, Mary Jane
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Rehearsal for Civil War: The Texas Cavalry in the Indian Territory, 1861 (open access)

Rehearsal for Civil War: The Texas Cavalry in the Indian Territory, 1861

Article explores the skirmishes led by Texas cavalry units and their Indian allies in the south that acted as a precursor for a much larger conflict, the Civil War. Douglas Hale investigates how loyalties to the different armies caused intertribal conflict and damage to Indian Territory.
Date: Autumn 1990
Creator: Hale, Douglas
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Causes of the American Civil War: Trends in Historical Interpretation, 1950-1976 (open access)

The Causes of the American Civil War: Trends in Historical Interpretation, 1950-1976

This thesis examines the trends in historical interpretation concerning the coming of the American Civil War. The main body of works examined were written between 1950 and 1976, beginning with Allan Nevins' Ordeal of the Union and concluding with David M. Potter's The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861. It also includes a brief survey of some works written after 1976. The main source for discovering the materials included were the bibliographies of both monographs and general histories published during and after the period 1950-1976. Also, perusal of the contents and book review sections of scholarly journals, in particular the Journal of Southern History and Civil War History, was helpful in discovering sources and placing works in a time chronology for the thesis narrative.
Date: May 1992
Creator: Tate, Michael Joseph
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
"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
Lone Star Blue and Gray: Essays on Texas in the Civil War (open access)

Lone Star Blue and Gray: Essays on Texas in the Civil War

Book containing sixteen essays from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and other scholarly journals. The essays are related to the state of Texas during the Civil War and cover such topics as military actions, Texan feelings towards the Union, and supply issues.
Date: 1995
Creator: Wooster, Ralph A.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Closing of Cordell Christian College: A Microcosm of American Intolerance during World War I (open access)

The Closing of Cordell Christian College: A Microcosm of American Intolerance during World War I

Article investigates the closing of Cordell Christian College due to its perceived antiwar sentiments during World War I. Michael W. Casey explores the attitudes in Oklahoma at the time and the vigilantism that occurred in the name of patriotism.
Date: Spring 1998
Creator: Casey, Michael W.
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Pro-Union Sentiment Among Restorationists within the Confederacy transcript

Pro-Union Sentiment Among Restorationists within the Confederacy

Lecture given Tuesday, February 24, 1998, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University
Date: February 24, 1998
Creator: Holley, Peggy
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Mei T. Nakano, March 18, 1995

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Mei Nakano, a college professor, concerning her experiences as a Japanese-American internee at the Amache, Colorado, internment camp during World War II. Nakano discusses her childhood experiences with bigotry in rural Colorado, the evacuation from Los Angeles to Amache in September of 1942, camp life, her marriage in the camp, resettlement in Chicago, and the lasting impressions of the internment experience.
Date: March 18, 1995
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Nakano, Mei Takaya
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Snakes and Scribes: The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks (open access)

Snakes and Scribes: The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks

Article explores the factionalism that occurred within the Creek Nation during the enrollment process of the Dawes Commission in the late nineteenth century, as well as the events surrounding the "Crazy Snake" rebellion led by Chitto Harjo.
Date: Winter 1997
Creator: Carter, Kent
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Resurrecting the Theology of Evangelism - Renewing Christ-Centered Evangelism transcript

Resurrecting the Theology of Evangelism - Renewing Christ-Centered Evangelism

Lecture given Monday, February 23, 1998, 11:00 AM at Abilene Christian University
Date: February 23, 1998
Creator: Jenkins, Ancil
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current Status and Practice of Church Discipline - Implications of "Family" in Church Discipline transcript

Current Status and Practice of Church Discipline - Implications of "Family" in Church Discipline

Lecture given Tuesday, February 24, 1998, 3:30 PM at Abilene Christian University
Date: February 24, 1998
Creator: Whiddon, Bob, Jr.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
ACU Missions Department - North America: Five Hundred Indian Nations for Christ transcript

ACU Missions Department - North America: Five Hundred Indian Nations for Christ

Lecture given Tuesday, February 24, 1998, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University
Date: February 24, 1998
Creator: Terry, Bruce
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History