The Dallas Story: the North American Aviation Plant and Industrial Mobilization During World War II

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During World War II the United States mobilized its industrial assets to become the great “Arsenal of Democracy” through the cooperation of the government and private firms. The Dallas Story examines a specific aviation factory, operated by the North American Aviation (NAA) company in Dallas, Texas. Terrance Furgerson explores the construction and opening of the factory, its operation, its relations with the local community, and the closure of the facility at the end of the war. Prior to the opening of the factory in 1941, the city of Dallas had practically no existing industrial base. Despite this deficiency, the residents quickly learned the craft of manufacturing airplanes, and by the time of the Pearl Harbor attack the NAA factory was mass-producing the AT-6 trainer aircraft. The entry of the United States into the war brought about an enlargement of the NAA factory, and the facility began production of the B-24 Liberator bomber and the famed P-51 Mustang fighter. By the end of the war the Texas division of NAA had manufactured nearly 19,000 airplanes, making it one of the most prolific U.S. factories.
Date: March 2023
Creator: Furgerson, Terrance
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 6 to 10 (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 6 to 10

Compilation of recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2021-2025, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 6 to 10.
Date: January 2023
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 6 to 10 (open access)

Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 6 to 10

Compilation of recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2021-2025, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 6-10.
Date: January 2023
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
FCC Record, Volume 37, No. 15, Pages 12989 to 13936 October 28 - November 28, 2022 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 37, No. 15, Pages 12989 to 13936 October 28 - November 28, 2022

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: November 2022
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library

For the Sake of the Song: Essays on Townes Van Zandt

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After he died, Townes Van Zandt found the success that he sabotaged throughout his short life despite the release of sixteen brilliant albums. Since his death, numerous albums both by and in honor of him have been released and many critical articles published, in addition to several books (including Robert Hardy’s A Deeper Blue by UNT Press). For the Sake of the Song collects ten essays on Townes Van Zandt from a variety of approaches. Contributors examine his legacy; his use of the minor key; his reception in the Austin music scene; and an exploration of his relationship with Richard Dobson, with whom he toured as part of the Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys. An introduction by editors Ann Norton Holbrook and Dan Beller- McKenna provides an overview of Van Zandt’s literary excellence and philosophical wisdom, rare among even the best songwriters.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Holbrook, Ann Norton & Beller-McKenna, Dan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Budget Board Fiscal Size-up: 2022-2023 Biennium (open access)

Legislative Budget Board Fiscal Size-up: 2022-2023 Biennium

Publication reports "on the budget and other fiscal actions of each Legislature, and to provide contextual information about the structure, operation, and fiscal condition of Texas state government." This edition provides information of "how tax dollars were directed by the Eight-seventh Legislature, 2021, that may have had a significant fiscal impact" (introduction).
Date: March 2022
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Essentials of Texas Water Resources (open access)

Essentials of Texas Water Resources

Compilation of essays analyzing various aspects of Texas laws related to water resources and management.
Date: 2022
Creator: State Bar of Texas. Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jerry Bywaters: An Annotated Bibliography (open access)

Jerry Bywaters: An Annotated Bibliography

Compiled bibliography of relevant sources related to artist Jerry Bywaters organized by material types including: exhibitions, journal and newspaper articles, auction catalogs, books and dissertations, museum collections, Internet sites, and other references. An index at the end references bibliography entry numbers in the text.
Date: 2022
Creator: Makowski, Colleen Lahan
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2023, Volume 2 (open access)

University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2023, Volume 2

Proposed budget for the University of Texas at Austin outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: 2022
Creator: University of Texas at Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2023, Volume 3 (open access)

University of Texas at Austin Operating Budget: 2023, Volume 3

Proposed budget for the University of Texas at Austin outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: 2022
Creator: University of Texas at Austin
System: The Portal to Texas History

Times Remembered: the Final Years of the Bill Evans Trio

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In the late 1970s legendary pianist Bill Evans was at the peak of his career. He revolutionized the jazz trio (bass, piano, drums) by giving each part equal emphasis in what jazz historian Ted Gioia called a “telepathic level” of interplay. It was an ideal opportunity for a sideman, and after auditioning in 1978, Joe La Barbera was ecstatic when he was offered the drum chair, completing the trio with Evans and bassist Marc Johnson. In Times Remembered, La Barbera and co-author Charles Levin provide an intimate fly-on-the-wall peek into Evans’s life, critical recording sessions, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes of life on the road. Joe regales the trio’s magical connection, a group that quickly gelled to play music on the deepest and purest level imaginable. He also watches his dream gig disappear, a casualty of Evans’s historical drug abuse when the pianist dies in a New York hospital emergency room in 1980. But La Barbera tells this story with love and respect, free of judgment, showing Evans’s humanity and uncanny ability to transcend physical weakness and deliver first-rate performances at nearly every show.
Date: September 2021
Creator: LaBarbera, Joe & Levin, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 36, No. 9, Pages 5583 to 6421, March 15 - March 26, 2021 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 36, No. 9, Pages 5583 to 6421, March 15 - March 26, 2021

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: August 2021
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Ranger Ideal Volume 3: Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1898–1987

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Established in Waco in 1968, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum honors the iconic Texas Rangers, a service that has existed, in one form or another, since 1823. Thirty-one individuals—whose lives span more than two centuries—have been enshrined in the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame. They have become legendary symbols of Texas and the American West. In The Ranger Ideal Volume 3, Darren L. Ivey presents capsule biographies of the twelve inductees who served Texas in the twentieth century. In the first portion of the book, Ivey describes the careers of the “Big Four” Ranger captains—Will L. Wright, Frank Hamer, Tom R. Hickman, and Manuel “Lone Wolf” Gonzaullas—as well as those of Charles E. Miller and Marvin “Red” Burton. Ivey then moves into the mid-century and discusses Robert A. Crowder, John J. Klevenhagen, Clinton T. Peoples, and James E. Riddles. Ivey concludes with Bobby Paul Doherty and Stanley K. Guffey, both of whom gave their lives in the line of duty. Using primary records and reliable secondary sources, and rejecting apocryphal tales, The Ranger Ideal presents the true stories of these intrepid men who enforced the law with gallantry, grit, and guns. This Volume 3 is the finale …
Date: July 2021
Creator: Ivey, Darren L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2021-2022, Undergraduate/Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2021-2022, Undergraduate/Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2021-2022, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Texas Tech University
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fort Worth Stories

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Fort Worth Stories is a collection of thirty-two bite-sized chapters of the city’s history. Did you know that the same day Fort Worth was mourning the death of beloved African American “Gooseneck Bill” McDonald, Dallas was experiencing a series of bombings in black neighborhoods? Or that Fort Worth almost got the largest statue to Robert E. Lee ever put up anywhere, sculpted by the same massive talent that created Mount Rushmore? Or that Fort Worth was once the candy-making capital of the Southwest and gave Hershey, Pennsylvania, a good run for its money as the sweet spot of the nation? A remarkable number of national figures have made a splash in Fort Worth, including Theodore Roosevelt while he was President; Vernon Castle, the Dance King; Dr. H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer; Harry Houdini, the escape artist; and Texas Guinan, star of the vaudeville stage and the big screen. Fort Worth Stories is illustrated with 50 photographs and drawings, many of them never before published. This collection of stories will appeal to all who appreciate the Cowtown city.
Date: February 2021
Creator: Selcer, Richard F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2019 to 2023, Articles VI-X (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2019 to 2023, Articles VI-X

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2019-2023, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles VI-X.
Date: January 2021
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Real Estate Forms Manual: 2021, Volume 1 (open access)

Texas Real Estate Forms Manual: 2021, Volume 1

Manual compiled by professional lawyers in the state of Texas regarding the processes and forms needed for typical real estate transactions: "This supplement updates the practice notes and forms and incorporates relevant statutory case law handed down since 2017" (p. 1).
Date: 2021
Creator: State Bar of Texas. Real Estate Forms Committee.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Real Estate Forms Manual: 2021, Volume 2 (open access)

Texas Real Estate Forms Manual: 2021, Volume 2

Manual compiled by professional lawyers in the state of Texas regarding the processes and forms needed for typical real estate transactions.
Date: 2021
Creator: State Bar of Texas. Real Estate Forms Committee.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2019 to 2023, Articles 6-10 (open access)

Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2019 to 2023, Articles 6-10

Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2019-2023, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 6 through 10.
Date: January 2021
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 1996 (open access)

Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 1996

Proceedings of the 32nd regional archeological symposium including the text of papers presented during the conference. It also includes the SWFAS by-laws, and the meeting minutes for the March 30, 1996 SWFAS business meeting.
Date: 2021
Creator: McIntosh, Dennis
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 7

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This anthology collects the winners of the 2019 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Eli Saslow, “It Was My Job, and I Didn’t Find Him” (The Washington Post), narrates the life of a former officer at the Parkland high school shooting. Second place: Elizabeth Bruenig, “What Do We Owe Her Now?” (The Washington Post), is the story of a high school rape victim who received no justice. Third place: Hannah Dreier, “The Disappeared” (ProPublica), follows a mother who lost her teenage son to gang violence. Runners-up include Jamie Thompson, “Standoff” (The Dallas Morning News); Lane DeGregory, “Lincoln’s Shot” (Tampa Bay Times); Jenna Russell, “The World, the Stage, the Way Ahead” (The Boston Globe); Evan Allen, “Under a Dark Sky, a Baby is Born” (The Boston Globe); Lisa Gartner, “She’s Taught at the Parkland High School for 14 Years. Can She Go Back?” (Tampa Bay Times); Claire McNeill, “So You Remember the Student Who Was Shot at FSU? He’s Pretty Sure We’ve All Moved On” (Tampa Bay Times); and Bethany Barnes, “Targeted” (The Oregonian).
Date: June 2020
Creator: Reaves, Gayle
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bob Bilyeu Camblin: An Iconoclast in Houston's Emerging Art Scene

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Born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Bob Camblin (1928-2010) was an artist, first and foremost. He earned his BFA and MFA degrees from the Kansas City Art Institute. His studies were followed by a Fulbright Fellowship that allowed him a year’s stay in Italy. Returning to the USA, he held teaching positions at the Ringling Museum, the University of Illinois, Detroit Mercy, and the University of Utah before moving to Houston in 1967 to teach at Rice’s new art department. He was active in Houston during the late 1960s through the 1980s, collaborating with Earl Staley and Joe Tate on many projects, including “happenings” on the beach in Galveston. His career led him to creative undertakings all over the world. Throughout his lifetime he constantly experimented with various art media. He remained open to new ideas and new techniques until his death in Louisiana in 2010. Camblin was a central figure in the period of artistic fermentation in Houston that is now beginning to receive increasing critical attention. He chose Rowland to be his historian while still at Rice, and her insights into him are based on many personal letters and conversations. In addition, she is a trained art historian and …
Date: April 2020
Creator: Rowland, Sandra Jensen
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 35, No. 5, Pages 3492 to 4344, April 13 - April 24, 2020 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 35, No. 5, Pages 3492 to 4344, April 13 - April 24, 2020

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: April 2020
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
2020 Supplement to Texas Real Estate Forms Manual Third Edition (open access)

2020 Supplement to Texas Real Estate Forms Manual Third Edition

Additions and changes to a manual compiled by professional lawyers in the state of Texas regarding the processes and forms needed for typical real estate transactions: "This supplement updates the practice notes and forms and incorporates relevant statutory and case law handed down since 2019" (p. 1).
Date: 2020
Creator: State Bar of Texas. Real Estate Forms Committee.
System: The Portal to Texas History