Their Faltering Footsteps: Hardships Suffered by the Confederate Civilians on the Homefront in the American Civil War of 1861-1865 (open access)

Their Faltering Footsteps: Hardships Suffered by the Confederate Civilians on the Homefront in the American Civil War of 1861-1865

It is the purpose of this study to reveal that the morale of the southern civilians was an important factor in determining the fall of the Confederacy. At the close of the Civil War, the South was exhausted and weak, with only limited supplies to continue their defense. The Confederacy might have been rallied by the determination of its people, but they lacked such determination, for the hardships and grief they endured had turned their cause into a meaningless struggle. Therefore, the South fell because its strength depended upon the will of its population. This study is based on accounts by contemporaries in diaries, memoirs, newspapers, and journals, and it reflects their reaction to the collapse of homefront morale.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Spencer, Judith Ann
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Illusion in the Making of the Versailles Treaty (1919) (open access)

The Role of Illusion in the Making of the Versailles Treaty (1919)

This investigation is concerned with the role played by the illusions of security, Bolshevism, and American innocence in the making of the Versailles Treaty of 1919. The main sources used in this thesis were the U.S. State Department publications The World War and The Paris Peace Conference and Paul Mantoux's Proceedings of the Council of Four. The drafting of the Versailles Treaty is approached chronologically with special emphasis accorded the problems emanating from the questions of Russia and the Rhine. The study concludes that the peacemakers were manipulated by the illusions of security, Bolshevism, and American innocence.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Baker, Bonnie Riddle
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States-Iranian relations, 1945-1947 (open access)

United States-Iranian relations, 1945-1947

During 1946 and 1947, Russia pressured Iran to grant an oil concession in the northern provinces. During this time, the United States supported Iran's right to make its decision free from Soviet pressure.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Partin, Michael Wayne
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Arms Sales to Iran and Power Politics in the Middle East (open access)

American Arms Sales to Iran and Power Politics in the Middle East

This thesis examines and evaluates the questions involved in American arms sales to Iran and Egypt. The first two chapters outline the historical background and present detailed analyses of Iran's political situations prior to 1968 and United States policy toward it in that period of time. Chapter Three considers the American policies towards Egypt and the United States arms sales to that country. The main argument of the thesis appears in chapter Four which explains the objectives of Iran's government in buying American arms and the United States government's objectives in selling arms to Iran. Conclusions on the study comprise the fifth chapter.
Date: December 1977
Creator: Aryanpur Kashani, Khosrow
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Suffragette Movement in Great Britain: A Study of the Factors Influencing the Strategy Choices of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1918 (open access)

The Suffragette Movement in Great Britain: A Study of the Factors Influencing the Strategy Choices of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1918

This thesis challenges the conventional wisdom that the W.S.P.U.'s strategy choices were unimportant in regard to winning women's suffrage. It confirms the hypothesis that the long-range strategy of the W.S.P.U. was to escalate coercion until the Government exhausted its powers of opposition and conceded, but to interrupt this strategy whenever favorable bargaining opportunities with the Government and third parties developed. In addition to filling an apparent research gap by systematically analyzing these choices, this thesis synthesizes and tests several piecemeal theories of social movements within the general framework of the natural history approach. The analysis utilizes data drawn from movement leaders' autobiographies, documentary accounts of the militant movement, and the standard histories of the entire British women's suffrage movement. Additionally, extensive use is made of contemporary periodicals and miscellaneous works on related movements.
Date: December 1977
Creator: Lance, Derril Keith Curry
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Viewer Response to the Television Presentation, “Roots” (open access)

A Study of Viewer Response to the Television Presentation, “Roots”

The problem of this research is to discover viewer response to the television series, "Roots," as revealed through newspapers and magazines published from December, 1976, to June 20, 1977. Thirty-seven articles and 134 interviewee responses were analyzed. The responses with the highest frequency of occurrence in the sample provided eight major categories (listed in the order of highest to lowest frequency of response): inaccuracy/oversimplification, increased awareness, future race relations, white guilt, black anger, future prime time television programming, black pride, and sadness. The predominant appeal of "Roots" was to the emotions of the viewers. Despite the criticism of inaccuracy and/or oversimplification, "Roots" was a timely presentation relating to a current social concern with justice and heritage.
Date: December 1977
Creator: Cannon, Sherry L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experiment in the Deliberate Subordination of Primary Pictorial Features in Painting and Investigation of the Pictorial Interface (open access)

An Experiment in the Deliberate Subordination of Primary Pictorial Features in Painting and Investigation of the Pictorial Interface

This study concerns the deliberate subordination in painting of thirteen art elements and principles, the primary pictorial features, and examination of the intervals between pictorial events, the pictorial interface. A written record was kept of the artist's observations and impressions during the making of ten nonobjective paintings and their later study. The artist selected five paintings as more successfully subordinating the primary pictorial features and three paintings as most successfully exhibiting the three characteristics determined for the pictorial inter face: (1) conceptual resonance, (2) ambiguity, and (3) unbiasedness. The three paintings selected as most successfully exhibiting the characteristics of the pictorial interface coincided with three of the five paintings selected as more successfully subordinating the primary pictorial features.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Quantz, Manfred
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1977 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1977

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 24, 1977
Creator: Wisch, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impeachment as a Political Weapon (open access)

Impeachment as a Political Weapon

This study is concerned with the problem of determining the nature of impeachable offenses through an analysis of the English theory of impeachment, colonial impeachment practice, debates in the constitutional convention and the state ratifying conventions, The Federalist Papers and debates in the first Congress, In addition, the precedents established in American cases of impeachment particularly in the trials of Judge John Pickering, Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson are examined. Materials for the study included secondary sources, congressional records, memoirs, contemporary accounts, government documents, newspapers and trial records, The thesis concludes that impeachable offenses include non-indictable behavior and exclude misconduct outside official duties and recommends some alternative method of removal for federal judges.
Date: December 1977
Creator: Collins, Sally Jean Bumpas
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development of Business Week Magazine (open access)

The Development of Business Week Magazine

This study explains the development of Business Week from its beginning in 1929 to 1975 and its changes over this forty-five-year period in format, content and editors. The study shows how Business Week developed, reflecting the history of American business, industry, labor, and the rise of the consumer, and recorded the growth and changes in the magazine's format, news departments, services and features, and staff. The study traces the development of Business Week in three periods, 1929, 1930-1950, and 1955-1975; and concludes that Business Week is the leading magazine publication in the business press. The sources of data for this study primarily include the executives of Business Week and the magazine itself.
Date: December 1977
Creator: Stockard, Krista Lynn
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1977 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1977

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 29, 1977
Creator: Wisch, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1977 (open access)

Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1977

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 15, 1977
Creator: Samuels, Joseph W.; White, Ida S. & Friedman, Marcia A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1977 (open access)

Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1977

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 15, 1977
Creator: Samuels, Joseph W.; White, Ida S. & Friedman, Marcia A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Appeal to Reason: Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and Whig Presidential Politics, 1836-1848 (open access)

An Appeal to Reason: Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and Whig Presidential Politics, 1836-1848

American politics from 1832 to 1848 underwent a profound transformation. Whereas in the early years of the republic politics had been based on deference and elitism, by the early 1830's a definite change in the political arena had occurred. With the coming of the "Age of Jackson, " the political rules and styles of the older era began to change. The politics of deference began to give way to the politics of "availability." Because this study is a discussion, examination, and analysis of Webster's and Clay's "appeal to reason, " the sources most heavily consulted were the published and microfilmed correspondence, speeches, and papers of these two statesmen. Other personal papers, correspondence, memoirs, and biographies of other central personalities of the middle period, both protagonists and antagonists, were used in order to place Webster and Clay in proper historical perspective. This dissertation is organized chronologically, and it traces and analyzes the evolution of the candidacies of Webster and Clay for the presidency from the early 1830's through the four presidential elections from 1836 to 1848. Each chapter includes an examination of Clay's and Webster's attempts to secure the Whig nomination and gain the presidency through forceful appeals to the voters' …
Date: December 1977
Creator: Teague, William Joseph, 1941-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Grandpa" and Other Stories (open access)

"Grandpa" and Other Stories

These sketches and stories are the result of moods, daydreams, and experiences. The collection progresses from those intimate stories controlled by personal experience to the last two works which try to crystallize a mood or experience in a medium without the device of first person. "Grandpa," "Great-Grandpa," and "Weedgod" are sketches which describe the boundary between what things are and what things seem to be. "Aunt Mary," "Hospital," and "Eggy Cooter" are short stories presenting situations in which the reader can determine this boundary line himself.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Winterbauer, Arthur E.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Readers Theatre Script Based on the Writings of William A. Owens (open access)

A Readers Theatre Script Based on the Writings of William A. Owens

This study includes an analysis of the autobiographies of William A. Owens, a contemporary writer, educator, and Texas folklorist; a discussion of Owens' educational experiences and attitudes; an explanation of Readers Theatre requirements; and a fifty to fifty-five minute Readers Theatre script, "Lighting the Lamp: William A. Owens' School Days in Pin Hook." The script portrays Owens as a Texas schoolboy and country schoolteacher and it conveys some of Owens' attitudes about education. The script was adapted from Owens' two autobiographies, This Stubborn Soil and A Season of Weathering, to be performed by junior and senior high school students.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Trantham, Ann Caldwell
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baritone Title Roles in the Operas of Verdi (open access)

The Baritone Title Roles in the Operas of Verdi

This paper discusses the nature and significance of the baritone title roles in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi. These operas include Nabucco, Macbeth, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, and Falstaff. Jewel William Hobbins explore the evolution of vocal roles and asserts that Verdi highly prized dramatic skill in his performers.
Date: December 1977
Creator: Hobbins, Jewel William
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Catholic Henri IV and the Papacy, 1593-1610 (open access)

The Catholic Henri IV and the Papacy, 1593-1610

This study explores Franco-Papal relations, and their effect on the French Church and State, from Henri IV's conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1593 until his death in 1610. Because Henri IV's primary concern, even in matters involving the Papacy or the Gallican Church, was to protect his kingdom from Habsburg encroachment, he was willing either to abandon his Protestant allies abroad, or to adopt reform measures, such as the decrees of the Council of Trent, that might weaken his own authority or disturb the peace of his kingdom. This caused repeated conflicts with the Counter-Reformation Popes Clement VIII and Paul V, to whom the primary enemy was always the infidel and the heretic. Nevertheless both sides realized that they needed each other to maintain their independence of Spain.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Fling, William Jackson
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 28, 1977 (open access)

Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 28, 1977

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 28, 1977
Creator: Samuels, Joseph W.; White, Ida S. & Friedman, Marcia A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1977 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1977

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 13, 1977
Creator: Wisch, J. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1977 (open access)

Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 1, 1977

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 1, 1977
Creator: Samuels, Joseph W.; White, Ida S. & Friedman, Marcia A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Leonardo Bruni and the Renaissance of history in Italian humanism (open access)

Leonardo Bruni and the Renaissance of history in Italian humanism

This dissertation assesses Leonardo Bruni as an individual in Renaissance Italy, analyzes the general contours of his humanism, and demonstrates the central role played by history in his thought. The sources used include manuscripts and printed editions if Bruni's works, the letters and works of his contemporaries, certain ancient and medieval works, and subsequent scholarship on the subject.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Blackman, Joseph Andrew
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1977 (open access)

Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 13, 1977

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 13, 1977
Creator: Samuels, Joseph W. & White, Ida S.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Theatrical Director's Application of the Value Systems Analysis to the Characterization of Roles (open access)

The Theatrical Director's Application of the Value Systems Analysis to the Characterization of Roles

The purpose of this thesis was to determine if the Value Systems (Tribalistic, Egocentric, Absolutistic, Achievist, Sociocentric, and Individualistic) based on the "Levels of Psychological Existence" developed by Clare W. Graves, could be applied to analysis of a role in a play script. Characters in four scripts were analyzed: The -Rainmaker, by N. Richard Nash; The Lark, by Jean Anouilh, adapted by Lillian Hellman; Fiddler on the Roof, book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick; and The Taming off the Shrew, by Shakespeare. The results showed that the system could be applied practically and effectively.
Date: December 1977
Creator: Schronk, Janice R.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library