World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 9. Rebellion captions transcript

World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 9. Rebellion

Video of Dr. Torget's lecture on the factors leading to revolution in Texas, covering: (1) Disturbances at Anahuac and Velasco, (2) Texans as Ardent Federalists, (3) The Quest for Separate Statehood, (4) Cotton Boom!, (5) Chaos of 1835, Revolution Begins.
Date: 2018-08-24T16:56:59/2018-08-24T17:55:44
Creator: Torget, Andrew J.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 9. Rebellion (ASL Interpretation) captions transcript

World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 9. Rebellion (ASL Interpretation)

American Sign Language interpretation of Dr. Torget's lecture on the factors leading to revolution in Texas, covering: (1) Disturbances at Anahuac and Velasco, (2) Texans as Ardent Federalists, (3) The Quest for Separate Statehood, (4) Cotton Boom!, (5) Chaos of 1835, Revolution Begins. Video contains picture-in-picture rendering of slides and original narration.
Date: 2018-08-24T16:56:59/2018-08-24T17:55:44
Creator: Torget, Andrew J.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Rebellion of James Hodges Sr.] (open access)

[Rebellion of James Hodges Sr.]

Brief description of the life of James Hodges Sr.
Date: October 21, 2021
Creator: Harper, Bernadette
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 22. Farmers in Rebellion captions transcript

World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 22. Farmers in Rebellion

Video of Dr. Torget's lecture about Texas near the end of the 19th century, including: (1) The Problem of Cotton, (2) The Grange, (3) The Farmer's Alliance, (4) Rise of the Populists, (5) Election of 1892.
Date: 2018-08-25T05:53:10/2018-08-25T07:01:51
Creator: Torget, Andrew J.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Language Policy, Protest and Rebellion (open access)

Language Policy, Protest and Rebellion

The hypothesis that language discrimination contributes to protest and/or rebellion is tested. Constitutional language policy regarding administrative/judicial, educational and other matters is measured on three separate scales developed for this study; the status of each minority group's language under its country's policy is measured by another set of scales. Protest and rebellion variables are taken from Gurr's Minorities at Risk study. Findings include an indication that group language status contributes positively to protest and rebellion until a language attains moderate recognition by the government, at which point status develops a negative relationship with protest and rebellion, and an indication that countries with wider internal variations in their treatment of language groups experience higher levels of protest and rebellion on the part of minority groups.
Date: May 2001
Creator: Lunsford, Sharon
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 22. Farmers in Rebellion (ASL Interpretation) captions transcript

World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 22. Farmers in Rebellion (ASL Interpretation)

American Sign Language interpretation of Dr. Torget's lecture about Texas near the end of the 19th century, including: (1) The Problem of Cotton, (2) The Grange, (3) The Farmer's Alliance, (4) Rise of the Populists, (5) Election of 1892. Video contains picture-in-picture rendering of slides and original narration.
Date: 2018-08-25T05:53:10/2018-08-25T07:01:51
Creator: Torget, Andrew J.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rhodesia, Rebellion and the Anglo-American Response (open access)

Rhodesia, Rebellion and the Anglo-American Response

The central theme in the following five chapters is that the native African in Rhodesia, confronted less than a century ago by modern civilization, has been deprived of his homeland and purposely restrained from progressing politically toward the leadership of his own nation.
Date: August 1966
Creator: Phillips, Dennis H.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rebellion and Reconciliation: Social Psychology, Genre, and the Teen Film 1980-1989 (open access)

Rebellion and Reconciliation: Social Psychology, Genre, and the Teen Film 1980-1989

In this dissertation, I bring together film theory, literary criticism, anthropology and psychology to develop a paradigm for the study of teen films that can also be effectively applied to other areas of pop culture studies as well as literary genres. Expanding on Thomas Doherty's discussion of 1950s teen films and Ian Jarvie's study of films as social criticism, I argue that teen films are a discrete genre that appeals to adolescents to the exclusion of other groups. Teen films subvert social mores of the adult world and validate adolescent subculture by reflecting that subculture's values and viewpoints. The locus of this subversion is the means by which teenagers, through the teen films, vicariously experience anxiety-provoking adult subjects such as sexual experimentation and physical violence, particularly the extreme expressions of sex and violence that society labels taboo. Through analyzing the rhetoric of teen lifestyle films, specifically the teen romance and sex farce, I explore how the films offer teens vicarious experience of many adolescent "firsts." In addition, I claim that teen films can effectively appropriate other genres while remaining identifiable as teen films. I discuss hybrid films which combine the teen film with the science fiction genre, specifically Back to …
Date: December 1996
Creator: Hubbard, Christine Karen Reeves
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Church and State in Mexico from Calles to Cárdenas, 1924-1938 (open access)

Church and State in Mexico from Calles to Cárdenas, 1924-1938

This dissertation presents an overview of Church- State relations in Mexico from 1924 to 1938. It examines the actions and motives of prominent national leaders, the papacy, the episcopate, and the Mexican citizenry to determine justification and culpability. This dissertation presents several conclusions. When Calles enforced the anticlerical provisions of the Constitution of 1917, the clergy withdrew from the churches in protest. The episcopate as a body bore a moral responsibility for the Cristero rebellion that resulted, but avoided implication in the movement. Because the Church's supporters were in the minority, that institution in 1929 accepted a settlement requiring clerical obedience to the constitution. Churchmen consoled their parishioners with the thought that the Church would rise again.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Joseph, Harriett Denise
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stephen Crane's Presentation of War (open access)

Stephen Crane's Presentation of War

This thesis explores the literary career of Stephen Crane, concentrating on his war works.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Wilson, Fred E.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 17. Civil War captions transcript

World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 17. Civil War

Video of Dr. Torget's lecture about the U.S. Civil War, covering: (1) War Breaks Out, (2), Texans in the Confederate Armies, (3) Life on the Homefront, (4) End of War, End of Slavery.
Date: 2018-08-25T02:22:35/2018-08-25T03:42:36
Creator: Torget, Andrew J.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
War-Time Politics: the Presidential Election of 1864 (open access)

War-Time Politics: the Presidential Election of 1864

This thesis describes the circumstances surrounding the presidential election of 1864, including the Civil war and the divided Republican party.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Lindley, Melba S.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Cotton Trade During the Civil War (open access)

The Texas Cotton Trade During the Civil War

"This study deals primarily with the technical aspects of the cotton trade, examining the extent and nature of the trade, the activities of the state and Confederate governments to control cotton, and the specific problems of transportation. The concluding chapter, however, is devoted to the cotton economy in perspective, giving special attention to the financial aspects of buying and selling cotton and to the contribution of the cotton trade to Texas and the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy."--leaves iv-v.
Date: January 1967
Creator: Dickeson, Sherrill L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Civil War Soldiers of Kendall County, Texas: A Biographical Dictionary (open access)

Civil War Soldiers of Kendall County, Texas: A Biographical Dictionary

Book containing an alphabetical list of persons from Kendall County, Texas who served in the military during the Civil War, with any known biographical information about each person. There is also relevant background information about the area in the preface, and a series of tables at the end of the book, containing additional reference material. A table of contents is on page v.
Date: 2013
Creator: Kiel, Frank Wilson 1930-
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
British Opponents of the Great War (open access)

British Opponents of the Great War

The intensely divided but vocal minority that denounced Great Britain's declaration of war in 1914 and decried Britain's continuance in the war illustrated both the strengths and weaknesses of their nation's politics and the impotence of dissent against a majority united in arms.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Odom, Sue Kirby
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 17. Civil War (ASL Interpretation) captions transcript

World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 17. Civil War (ASL Interpretation)

American Sign Language interpretation of Dr. Torget's lecture about the U.S. Civil War, covering: (1) War Breaks Out, (2), Texans in the Confederate Armies, (3) Life on the Homefront, (4) End of War, End of Slavery. Video contains picture-in-picture rendering of slides and original narration.
Date: 2018-08-25T02:22:35/2018-08-25T03:42:36
Creator: Torget, Andrew J.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
African American Soldiers in the Philippine War: An Examination of the Contributions of Buffalo Soldiers during the Spanish American War and Its Aftermath, 1898-1902 (open access)

African American Soldiers in the Philippine War: An Examination of the Contributions of Buffalo Soldiers during the Spanish American War and Its Aftermath, 1898-1902

During the Philippine War, 1899 – 1902, America attempted to quell an uprising from the Filipino people. Four regular army regiments of black soldiers, the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, and the Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Infantry served in this conflict. Alongside the regular army regiments, two volunteer regiments of black soldiers, the Forty-Eighth and Forty-Ninth, also served. During and after the war these regiments received little attention from the press, public, or even historians. These black regiments served in a variety of duties in the Philippines, primarily these regiments served on the islands of Luzon and Samar. The main role of these regiments focused on garrisoning sections of the Philippines and helping to end the insurrection. To carry out this mission, the regiments undertook a variety of duties including scouting, fighting insurgents and ladrones (bandits), creating local civil governments, and improving infrastructure. The regiments challenged racist notions in America in three ways. They undertook the same duties as white soldiers. They interacted with local "brown" Filipino populations without fraternizing, particularly with women, as whites assumed they would. And, they served effectively at the company and platoon level under black officers. Despite the important contributions of these soldiers, both socially and militarily, …
Date: August 2017
Creator: Redgraves, Christopher M.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Campaigns Replete with Instruction”: Garnet Wolseley’s Civil War Observations and Their Effect on British Senior Staff College Training Prior to the Great War (open access)

“Campaigns Replete with Instruction”: Garnet Wolseley’s Civil War Observations and Their Effect on British Senior Staff College Training Prior to the Great War

This thesis addresses the importance of the American Civil War to nineteenth-century European military education, and its influence on British staff officer training prior to World War I. It focuses on Garnet Wolseley, a Civil War observer who eventually became Commander in Chief of the Forces of the British Army. In that position, he continued to write about the war he had observed a quarter-century earlier, and was instrumental in according the Civil War a key role in officer training. Indeed, he placed Stonewall Jackson historian G.F.R. Henderson in a key military professorship. The thesis examines Wolseley’s career and writings, as well as the extent to which the Civil War was studied at the Senior Staff College, in Camberly, after Wolseley’s influence had waned. Analysis of the curriculum from the College archives demonstrates that study of the Civil War diminished rapidly in the ten years prior to World War I.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Cohen, Bruce D.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Financial History of the War of 1812 (open access)

The Financial History of the War of 1812

The War of 1812 brought daunting financial challenges to the national government of the United States. At the onset of war, policymakers were still in the process of sifting through a developing body of American economic thought while contemplating the practicalities of banking and public finance. The young nation's wartime experience encompassed the travails of incompetent and cautious leadership, the incautious optimism that stemmed from several previous years of economic growth, the inadequacies of the banking system, and, ultimately, the temporary deterioration of the financial position of the United States. While not equivalent to great tragedy, the war did force Americans to attend to the financial infrastructure of the country and reevaluate what kinds of institutions were truly necessary. This study of the financing of the War of 1812 provides a greater understanding of how the early American economy functioned and the sources of its economic progress during that era. Financial studies have typically not been a primary focus of historians, and certainly with regard to the War of 1812, it is easy to understand a preoccupation with political and military affairs. To a large degree, however, economic realities and financial infrastructure determine a nation's capacity for growth and change …
Date: May 2009
Creator: Morales, Lisa R.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethnicity, Civil War and International Disputes (open access)

Ethnicity, Civil War and International Disputes

Paper explores the role played by ethnicity in civil war in terms of sparking international disputes.
Date: 2010
Creator: Kenwick, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
German Unionism in Texas During the Civil War and Reconstruction (open access)

German Unionism in Texas During the Civil War and Reconstruction

Preface -- Chapter I. Settlement and politics-- Chapter II. Early organization and secession -- Chapter III. German unionism and confederate service -- Chapter IV. Presidential reconstruction -- Chapter V. Congressional reconstruction -- Bibliography.
Date: August 1957
Creator: Shook, Robert W.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
From Associates to Antagonists: the United States, Great Britain, the First World War, and the Origins of War Plan Red, 1914-1919 (open access)

From Associates to Antagonists: the United States, Great Britain, the First World War, and the Origins of War Plan Red, 1914-1919

American military plans for a war with the British Empire, first discussed in 1919, have received varied treatment since their declassification. the most common theme among historians in their appraisals of WAR PLAN RED is that of an oddity. Lack of a detailed study of Anglo-American relations in the immediate post-First World War years makes a right understanding of the difficult relationship between the United States and Britain after the War problematic. As a result of divergent aims and policies, the United States and Great Britain did not find the diplomatic and social unity so many on both sides of the Atlantic aspired to during and immediately after the First World War. Instead, United States’ civil and military organizations came to see the British Empire as a fierce and potentially dangerous rival, worthy of suspicion, and planned accordingly. Less than a year after the end of the War, internal debates and notes discussed and circulated between the most influential members of the United States Government, coalesced around a premise that became the rationale for WAR PLAN RED. Ample evidence reveals that contrary to the common narrative of “Anglo-American” and “Atlanticist” historians of the past century, the First World War did …
Date: May 2012
Creator: Gleason, Mark C.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
China's Industry and the Impact of the War Upon It (open access)

China's Industry and the Impact of the War Upon It

This thesis is a study of China's industry and how it was impacted by war.
Date: 1946
Creator: Harris, Margaret B.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
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