The Implementation Plan for the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (open access)

The Implementation Plan for the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act

Plan outlining background information related to the implementation plan for the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA) and delineating steps to implementing the plan.
Date: [2019-09..2021-08]
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
System: The Portal to Texas History

A Machine-Gunner in France: The Memoirs of Ward Schrantz, 35th Division, 1917-1919

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This is the WWI memoir of Ward Schrantz, a National Guard officer and machine gun company commander in the Kansas-Missouri 35th Division. He extensively documents his experiences and those of his men, from training at Camp Doniphan to their voyage across the Atlantic, and to their time in the trenches in France’s Vosges Mountains and ultimately to their return home. He devotes much of his memoir to the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, in which the 35th Division suffered heavy casualties and made only moderate gains before being replaced by fresh troops. Schrantz also describes the daily life of a soldier, including living conditions, relations between officers and enlisted men, and the horrific experience of combat. Editor Jeffrey Patrick combines his narrative with excerpts from a detailed history of the unit that Schrantz wrote for his local newspaper, and also provides an editor’s introduction and annotations.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Schrantz, Ward L. & Patrick, Jeffrey L.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Adolphe Gouhenant: French Revolutionary, Utopian Leader, and Texas Frontier Photographer

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Adolphe Gouhenant tells the story of artist, revolutionary, and early North Texas resident Francois Ignace (Adolphe) Gouhenant (1804-1871). Gouhenant was selected by well-known Icarian communist Etienne Cabet to lead an advance guard from France to settle a utopian colony in North Texas. The community, beset by hardships, ultimately scapegoated Gouhenant, accused him of being a French agent, and expelled him. He then journeyed first to Fort Worth to teach the federal soldiers French and art, and next to Dallas, where he founded the town’s first arts establishment in the 1850s. Gouhenant set up shop as a daguerreotypist and photographed the town’s early residents. His Arts Saloon was the scene of many exhibitions and dances but ultimately became the high stake in a nasty battle among Dallas’s leading citizens, setting legal precedent for Texas homestead law.
Date: October 2019
Creator: Selzer, Paula & Pécontal, Emmanuel
System: The UNT Digital Library
We Can, We Will! (open access)

We Can, We Will!

The story of the first African Americans to serve in the regular army.
Date: February 2019
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas A&M University - San Antonio: The Jaguar Journey (open access)

Texas A&M University - San Antonio: The Jaguar Journey

Book detailing the first ten years of the San Antonio campus of Texas A & M University, from its 2009 creation to 2019. Includes historical references stretching back to the 1800s.
Date: 2019
Creator: Cooke, Catherine Nixon, 1950-
System: The Portal to Texas History

Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War

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In Beyond the Quagmire, thirteen scholars from across disciplines provide a series of provocative, important, and timely essays on the politics, combatants, and memory of the Vietnam War. The essays pose new questions, offer new answers, and establish important lines of debate regarding social, political, military, and memory studies. Part 1 contains four chapters by scholars who explore the politics of war in the Vietnam era. In Part 2, five contributors offer chapters on Vietnam combatants with analyses of race, gender, environment, and Chinese intervention. Part 3 provides four innovative and timely essays on Vietnam in history and memory.
Date: March 2019
Creator: Jensen, Geoffrey W. & Stith, Matthew M.
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told

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Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West, notable for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Some see him as a hero lawman of the Wild West, whereas others see him as yet another outlaw, a pimp, and failed lawman. Roy B. Young, Gary L. Roberts, and Casey Tefertiller, all notable experts on Earp and the Wild West, present in A Wyatt Earp Anthology an authoritative account of his life, successes, and failures. The editors have curated an anthology of the very best work on Earp—more than sixty articles and excerpts from books—from a wide array of authors, selecting only the best written and factually documented pieces and omitting those full of suppositions or false material. Earp’s life is presented in chronological fashion, from his early years to Dodge City, Kansas; triumph and tragedy in Tombstone; and his later years throughout the West. Important figures in Earp’s life, such as Bat Masterson, the Clantons, the McLaurys, Doc Holliday, and John Ringo, are also covered. Wyatt Earp’s image in film and the myths surrounding his life, as well as controversies over interpretations and presentations of his life by various …
Date: August 2019
Creator: Young, Roy B.; Roberts, Gary L. & Tefertiller, Casey
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Cornett-Whitley Gang: Violence Unleashed in Texas

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During the late 1880s, the Cornett-Whitley gang rose on the Texas scene with a daring train robbery at McNeil Station, only miles from the capital of Texas. In the frenzy that followed the robbery, the media castigated both lawmen and government officials, at times lauded the outlaws, and indulged in trial by media. At Flatonia the gang tortured the passengers and indulged in an orgy of violence that earned them international recognition and infamy. Private enterprises, such as Wells Fargo, the railroads, and numerous banks, joined forces with law enforcement to combat them. Lawmen from cities and counties combined with federal marshals and the Texas Rangers to further cement what would become the “brotherhood of the badge.” These efforts succeeded in tracking down and killing or capturing a good number of the gang members. Readers of the Old West and true crime stories will appreciate this sordid tale of outlawry and the lawmen who put a stop to it.
Date: July 2019
Creator: Johnson, David
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 2018 (open access)

Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 2018

Proceedings of the 55th regional archeological symposium including the text of papers presented during the conference.
Date: 2019
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2017 to 2021, Articles 1-3 (open access)

Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2017 to 2021, Articles 1-3

Compilation of recommended funding levels for various programs across the state government during fiscal years 2017-2021, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 1-3 on public education.
Date: January 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Dennie Wolf, September 9, 2019

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Transcript of an interview with Dennie Wolf, co-author of chapters on postpartum recovery in the 1979 book Ourselves and Our Children and the 1984 version Our Bodies Ourselves, both publications of the Boston Women’s Health Collective. This interview includes discussion of postpartum depression, the women’s health movement, second wave feminism, and development psychology. The interview is part of the postpartum depression project.
Date: September 9, 2019
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Wolf, Dennie
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of Texas at San Antonio Operating Budget: 2020 (open access)

University of Texas at San Antonio Operating Budget: 2020

Proposed budget for the University of Texas at San Antonio outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: 2019
Creator: University of Texas at San Antonio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2017 to 2021, Articles 1-3 (open access)

Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2017 to 2021, Articles 1-3

Compilation of recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2017-2021, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 1-3.
Date: January 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2017 to 2021, Article 3 (open access)

Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2017 to 2021, Article 3

Compilation of recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2017-2021, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to article 3.
Date: January 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of the University of North Texas, 2019-2020, Graduate (open access)

Catalog of the University of North Texas, 2019-2020, Graduate

The UNT Graduate Bulletin includes information about class offerings as well as "policies, regulations, procedures and fees in effect at the time [the] publication went to press"
Date: July 2019
Creator: University of North Texas
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jane I. Honikman, November 13, 2019

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Interview with Jane I. Honikman, co-founder of Postpartum Education for Parents (1977) and founder of Postpartum Support International (1987), concerning her career and experiences with mental health related to childbearing and parenthood.
Date: November 13, 2019
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Honikman, Jane I.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Victor Rodriguez, November 21, 2019

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Interview with Dr. Victor Rodriguez spotlighting significant insights into his storied and sterling career through five time dimensions: (1) his early all-Hispanic elementary school training; (2) his continued study and budding athletic prowess in the Edna, TX, school district; (3) his Victoria Junior College athletic achievements and learning; (4) his higher education art training, Geezle membership, and track accomplishments at North Texas State College; and (5) his 37-year career as a teacher, coach, and superintendent in the San Antonio (TX) school district. Inspired by his Anglo third-grade teacher in an all-Hispanic school in Edna, TX, Victor responded to his teacher's challenge to be a civic contributor by becoming a daily bell ringer at the local Catholic church (described in detail in his book, The Bell Ringer), a job requiring him to arise at 4:30 each morning and to run two miles one way amid nipping dogs to ring the bell. This discipline and activity would tap his athletic ability later as he surfaced as a distance district winner despite running barefoot, in blue jeans, and in an oversized t-shirt. From this beginning, he would emerge as a state champion and win a track scholarship to Victoria Junior College where he …
Date: November 21, 2019
Creator: Pettit, John D. & Rodriguez, Victor, 1932-
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2020, Volume 3 (open access)

University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2020, Volume 3

Proposed budget for the University of Texas at Austin outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: 2019
Creator: University of Texas at Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History

A Life in Music from the Soviet Union to Canada: Memoirs of a Madrigal Ensemble Singer

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The musical career of Alexander Tumanov extends from Stalinist and Soviet Russia through contemporary Canada, and as such provides an inspiring portrait of one person’s devotion to his art under trying circumstances. Tumanov was a founding member of Moscow’s Madrigal Ensemble of early music, which introduced Renaissance and Baroque music to the Soviet Union. The Ensemble enjoyed tremendous popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, despite occasional official disapproval by the Soviet bureaucracy. At times the compositions of the group’s founder, Andrei Volkonsky, were banned. Volkonsky eventually emigrated to escape the oppressive conditions, followed soon after, in 1974, by Tumanov, and the Madrigal Ensemble continued in a changed form under new leaders. The story of the author's subsequent life and career in Canada provides a poignant point of contrast with his Soviet period — at the musical, academic, and political levels. This book is a valuable resource for those interested in the history of music and intellectual life in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century and is the first published book on the Madrigal Ensemble.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Tumanov, Alexander & Tumanov, Vladimir
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Enactments (open access)

Summary of Enactments

Document providing summaries of all bills and joint resolutions passed by the Texas Legislature during the 2019 Regular Session, from January 8 through May 27.
Date: November 2019
Creator: Texas Legislative Council
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archeological Surveys in Response to the Bastrop County Complex Fire, Bastrop State Park, Bastrop County, Texas (open access)

Archeological Surveys in Response to the Bastrop County Complex Fire, Bastrop State Park, Bastrop County, Texas

Report over the Bastrop County Complex fire and the decisions made in the aftermath. Includes a plan for management and protection of the twelve archaeological sites discovered during the timber harvest unit and road corridor surveys in Bastrop State Park.
Date: October 2019
Creator: Lowe, John D. (John Douglas); McNatt, Logan; Howard, Margaret, 1954- & Gibbs, Joshua
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2020 (open access)

University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2020

Proposed budget for the University of Texas at Austin outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: 2019
Creator: University of Texas at Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History

Minding the Helm: An Unlikely Career in the U.S. Coast Guard

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As a boy growing up in New York City, Kevin P. Gilheany had two dreams: to join the Coast Guard and to play the bagpipes. But by the time he finished high school he was overweight, had a drinking problem, and couldn’t swim. Undeterred by the doubts of the folks at home, he decided to enlist in the Coast Guard anyway. With great determination and some divine intervention, he passed the swim test and graduated from boot camp, thus beginning an eventful and diverse twenty-year career in the 1980s and 1990s Coast Guard. He set a goal for himself to get command of his own patrol boat, and along the way he was involved in capturing drug smugglers, rescuing hundreds of Haitian migrants at sea, recovering Space Shuttle Challenger debris, surviving a “hooligan navy” experience on a Coast Guard workboat, coordinating search and rescue during the famed “Perfect Storm,” and leading armed boardings of ships following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. When he was asked by one of his men, who was dying from brain cancer, to play bagpipes at his retirement ceremony, Kevin started down a new path to have bagpipers officially recognized as part of the Coast Guard. …
Date: May 2019
Creator: Gilheany, Kevin P.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Classic Keys: Keyboard Sounds That Launched Rock Music

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Classic Keys is a beautifully photographed and illustrated book focusing on the signature rock keyboard sounds of the 1950s to the early 1980s. It celebrates the Hammond B-3 organ, Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, the Vox Continental and Farfisa combo organs, the Hohner Clavinet, the Mellotron, the Minimoog and other famous and collectable instruments. From the earliest days of rock music, the role of keyboards has grown dramatically. Advancements in electronics created a crescendo of musical invention. In the thirty short years between 1950 and 1980, the rock keyboard went from being whatever down-on-its-luck piano awaited a band in a bar or concert hall to a portable digital orchestra. It made keyboards a centerpiece of the sound of many top rock bands, and a handful of them became icons of both sound and design. Their sounds live on: Digitally, in the memory chips of modern keyboards, and in their original form thanks to a growing group of musicians and collectors of many ages and nationalities. Classic Keys explores the sound, lore, and technology of these iconic instruments, including their place in the historical development of keyboard instruments, music, and the international keyboard instrument industry. Twelve significant instruments are presented as …
Date: September 2019
Creator: Lenhoff, Alan S., 1951- & Robertson, David E., 1956-
System: The UNT Digital Library