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Ordered West: The Civil War Exploits of Charles A. Curtis

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Accounts of Charles Curtis, who served in the 5th United States Infantry on the New Mexico and Arizona frontier. This is edited version version of serial installments (originally published in newspapers from 1877-1880) with the addition of biographical information and some historical context, as well as some reorganization to read chronologically and some normalization of language and spelling. Index starts on page 561.
Date: June 2017
Creator: Gaff, Alan D. & Gaff, Donald H.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Coast Guard Cutter Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and potential oversight issues for Congress on the Coast Guard's programs for procuring 8 National Security Cutters (NSCs), 25 Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPCs), and 58 Fast Response Cutters (FRCs). Congress's decisions on these three programs could substantially affect Coast Guard capabilities and funding requirements, and the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base.
Date: August 15, 2017
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Single Star of the West: The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845

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Does Texas’s experience as a republic make it unique among the other states? In many ways, Texas was an “accidental republic” for nearly ten years, until Texans voted overwhelmingly in favor of annexation to the United States after winning independence from Mexico. Single Star of the West begins with the Texas Revolution and examines the emergence of a Texas identity. Next, several contributors discuss how the Republic was defended by its army, navy, and the Texas Rangers. Individual chapters focus on the early founders of Texas—Sam Houston, Mirabeau B. Lamar, and Anson Jones. Texas’s efforts at diplomacy, and persistence and transformation in its economy, also receive careful analysis. Finally, social and cultural aspects of the Texas Republic receive coverage, with discussions of women, American Indians, African Americans, Tejanos, and religion.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Howell, Kenneth Wayne & Swanlund, Charles
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Leon Stath, April 18, 2017 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Leon Stath, April 18, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Leon Stath. Stath joined the Navy and volunteered for submarine duty in 1944. After finishing sound school and torpedo school, he was sent to the Pacific and assigned aboard the submarine tender USS Howard W Gilmore (AS-16) at Subic Bay. He also served on submarine skeleton crews ferrying subs as well as aboard USS Requin (SS-481) when Slade Cutter commanded. When the war ended, Stath took his discharge in late 1945.
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: Stath, Leon
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Leon Stath, April 18, 2017 transcript

Oral History Interview with Leon Stath, April 18, 2017

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Leon Stath. Stath joined the Navy and volunteered for submarine duty in 1944. After finishing sound school and torpedo school, he was sent to the Pacific and assigned aboard the submarine tender USS Howard W Gilmore (AS-16) at Subic Bay. He also served on submarine skeleton crews ferrying subs as well as aboard USS Requin (SS-481) when Slade Cutter commanded. When the war ended, Stath took his discharge in late 1945.
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: Stath, Leon
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Review of Law & Politics, Volume 21, Number 3, Spring 2017 (open access)

Texas Review of Law & Politics, Volume 21, Number 3, Spring 2017

Biannual journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of politics and law in the United States.
Date: Spring 2017
Creator: University of Texas at Austin. School of Law.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Economic Resilience, Disasters, and Green Jobs:  An Institutional Collective Action Framework (open access)

Economic Resilience, Disasters, and Green Jobs: An Institutional Collective Action Framework

This dissertation is about economic resilience of local governments to natural disasters. Specifically, the dissertation investigates resilience on regional level. Moreover, the dissertation also investigates growth in the green job sector in local governments. The findings indicate that local governments working with each other helps green job creation. In addition, the dissertation finds that green jobs, following disasters, experience three percent growth. This dissertation is important because it investigates the relationship between climate- related disasters and green jobs, which is an area that is under-investigated.
Date: December 2017
Creator: Ismayilov, Orkhan M.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 100, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 2017 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 100, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 2017

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 10, 2017
Creator: Parks, Scott K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
China-U.S. Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities-Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

China-U.S. Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities-Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on China's naval modernization effort and its implications for U.S. Navy capabilities. For an overview of the strategic and budgetary context in which China's naval modernization effort and its implications for U.S. Navy capabilities may be considered, see Appendix A.
Date: December 13, 2017
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on China's naval modernization effort and its implications for U.S. Navy capabilities. The question of how the United States should respond to China's military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, is a key issue in U.S. defense planning and budgeting. Many U.S. military programs for countering improving Chinese military forces (particularly its naval forces) fall within the U.S. Navy's budget. The issue for Congress is how the U.S. Navy should respond to China's military modernization effort, particularly its naval modernization effort. Decisions that Congress reaches on this issue could affect U.S. Navy capabilities and funding requirements and the U.S. defense industrial base. For an overview of the strategic and budgetary context in which China's naval modernization effort and its implications for U.S. Navy capabilities may be considered, see Appendix A.
Date: November 1, 2017
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controlled Vocabularies in the Digital Age: Are They Still Relevant? (open access)

Controlled Vocabularies in the Digital Age: Are They Still Relevant?

Keyword searching and controlled vocabularies such as Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH) proved to work well together in automated technologies and the two systems have been considered complimentary. When the Internet burst onto the information landscape, users embraced the simplicity of keyword searching of this resource while researchers and scholars seemed unable to agree on how best to make use of controlled vocabularies in this huge database. This research looked at a controlled vocabulary, LCSH, in the context of keyword searching of a full text database. The Internet and probably its most used search engine, Google, seemed to have set a standard that users have embraced: a keyword-searchable single search box on an uncluttered web page. Libraries have even introduced federated single search boxes to their web pages, another testimony to the influence of Google. UNT's Thesis and Dissertation digital database was used to compile quantitative data with the results input into an EXCEL spreadsheet. Both Library of Congress subject headings (LCSH) and author-assigned keywords were analyzed within selected dissertations and both systems were compared. When the LCSH terms from the dissertations were quantified, the results showed that from a total of 788 words contained in the 207 LCSH …
Date: August 2017
Creator: Baker, William
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Workforce Investment Council Briefing Materials: June 9, 2017 (open access)

Texas Workforce Investment Council Briefing Materials: June 9, 2017

Briefing materials compiled for a meeting of the Texas Workforce Investment Council held Friday, June 9, 2017 at 8:30 a.m. at the Austin Community College Highland Business Center. The materials include minutes, reports, grant updates, action item considerations, and current initiatives.
Date: Summer 2017
Creator: Texas Workforce Investment Council
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, Volume 53, 2017 (open access)

The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, Volume 53, 2017

Annual journal of the Texas Gulf Historical Society publishing papers about the history of people, events, and development in the Texas Gulf region.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Gulf Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 2017 (open access)

The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 31, 2017

Weekly newspaper from Tulia, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 31, 2017
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the sustainment and modernization of the Coast Guard's polar icebreaker fleet. The Coast Guard's proposed FY2017 budget requests $150 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2020. The issue for Congress is whether to approve, reject, or modify the Administration's FY2017 acquisition funding request for a new polar icebreaker, and, more generally, whether to approve, reject, or modify the Coast Guard's overall plan for sustaining and modernizing the polar icebreaking fleet.
Date: August 15, 2017
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 2017 (open access)

The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 2017

Weekly newspaper from Schulenburg, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 26, 2017
Creator: Prause, Diane & Vyvjala, Darrell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Texas Press (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 2017 (open access)

East Texas Press (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 2017

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 1, 2017
Creator: Bryant, Jack
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crosby County News (Ralls, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 2017 (open access)

Crosby County News (Ralls, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 2017

Weekly newspaper from Ralls, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 25, 2017
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Congressional Gold Medals, 1776-2016 (open access)

Congressional Gold Medals, 1776-2016

This report discusses the Congressional Gold Medal which is a sponsor proposals recognizing historic events and outstanding achievements by individuals or institutions.
Date: February 13, 2017
Creator: Glassman, Matthew Eric
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress

This report discusses the Coast Guard's plan build a new polar icebreaker to replace a nonoperational one. Costs, past and proposed appropriations, and the general icebreaker program are discussed.
Date: October 24, 2017
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Coast Guard Polar Icebreaker Modernization: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the sustainment and modernization of the Coast Guard's polar icebreaker fleet. The Coast Guard's proposed FY2018 budget requests $19 million in acquisition funding for a new polar icebreaker that the Coast Guard wants to begin building in FY2019.
Date: September 14, 2017
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of the Impact of Social Vulnerability Research on the Practice of Emergency Management (open access)

An Investigation of the Impact of Social Vulnerability Research on the Practice of Emergency Management

This dissertation examines the extent to which social vulnerability, as studied by researchers across multiple disciplines, has influenced the practice of emergency management at the local level. This study addresses two major research questions to accomplish this goal. First, how do local emergency managers perceive and define social vulnerability? Second, what strategies do local emergency managers employ to reach and meet the needs of socially vulnerable populations? Semi-structured interviews were conducted in person or by phone with a sample of local emergency managers, city managers, and American Red Cross personnel from the Houston - Galveston and the South East Texas regions as defined by the respective Councils of Government. A modified grounded theory approach was used with a constant comparative method to identify themes for each research question. Triangulation was accomplished through secondary census data and supplemental interviews. The interview data reveal that social vulnerability research has had an indirect influence on the practice of emergency management at the local level. This influence is facilitated through state and federal policy, training, and plans development. Based on the interview data, four themes were identified that capture the various ways in which local emergency management officials perceive and define social vulnerability. These …
Date: August 2017
Creator: Williams, Brian Don
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 31, 2017 (open access)

The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Weekly newspaper from Center, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 31, 2017
Creator: Fountain, Steve
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 24, 2017 (open access)

The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 25, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Weekly newspaper from Center, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Fountain, Steve
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History