Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 2, Pages 235-438, January 10, 2020 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 2, Pages 235-438, January 10, 2020

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 10, 2020
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 4, Pages 493-664, January 24, 2020 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 4, Pages 493-664, January 24, 2020

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 24, 2020
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 8, Pages 1073-1274, February 21, 2020 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 8, Pages 1073-1274, February 21, 2020

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 12, Pages 1907-2086, March 20 2020 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 12, Pages 1907-2086, March 20 2020

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: March 20, 2020
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 9, Pages 1275-1516, February 28, 2020 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 9, Pages 1275-1516, February 28, 2020

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: February 28, 2020
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Henderson News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 86, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 12, 2020 (open access)

The Henderson News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 86, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 12, 2020

Semiweekly newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 12, 2020
Creator: Moore, Dan & Mahoney, Kent
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 2020 (open access)

Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Sanger, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 16, 2020
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 2020 (open access)

Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Sanger, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 6, 2020
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 2020 (open access)

Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Sanger, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 3, 2020
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 2020 (open access)

The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Leonard, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 20, 2020
Creator: Blevins, Betsy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 2020 (open access)

The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 130, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 2020

Weekly newspaper from Leonard, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 5, 2020
Creator: Blevins, Betsy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Medallion, Volume 58, Number 1, Winter 2020 (open access)

The Medallion, Volume 58, Number 1, Winter 2020

Quarterly publication of the Texas Historical Commission containing articles about historic sites, events, and conservation in Texas, as well as organizational and related news.
Date: Winter 2020
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
In the Tall Grass West of Town: Racial Violence in Denton County during the Rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan (open access)

In the Tall Grass West of Town: Racial Violence in Denton County during the Rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan

The aim of this thesis is to narrate and analyze lynching and atypical violence in Denton County, Texas, between 1920 and 1926. Through this intensive study of a rural county in north Texas, the role of law enforcement in typical and systemic violence is observed and the relationship between Denton County Officials and the Ku Klux Klan is analyzed. Chapter 1 discusses the root of the word lynching and submits a call for academic attention to violence that is unable to be categorized as lynching due to its restrictive definition. Chapter 2 chronicles known instances of lynching in Denton County from its founding through the 1920s including two lynchings perpetrated by Klavern 136, the Denton County Klan. Chapter 3 examines the relationship between Denton County Law Enforcement and the Klan. In Chapter 4, seasons of violence are identified and applied to available historical records. Chapter 5 concludes that non-lynching violence, termed "disappearances," occurred and argues on behalf of its inclusion within the historiography of Jim Crow Era criminal actions against Black Americans. In the Prologue and Epilogue, the development and dissolution of the St. John's Community in Pilot Point, Texas, is narrated.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Crittenden, Micah Carlson
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Administration of Unemployment Relief by the State of Texas during the Great Depression, 1929-1941

During the Great Depression, for the first time in its history, the federal government provided relief to the unemployed and destitute through myriad New Deal agencies. This dissertation examines how "general relief" (direct or "make-work") from federal programs—primarily the Emergency Relief and Construction Act (ERCA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)—was acquired and administered by the government of Texas through state administrative agencies. These agencies included the Chambers of Commerce (1932-1933), Unofficial Texas Relief Commission (1933), Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission (1933), Official Texas Relief Commission (1933-1934), Texas Relief Commission Division of the State Board of Control (1934), and the Department of Public Welfare (1939). Overall, the effective administration of general relief in the Lone Star State was undermined by a political ideology that persisted from, and was embodied by, the "Redeemer" Constitution of 1876.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Park, David B.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Long-Term Air Quality Trends in North Texas using Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques (open access)

An Evaluation of Long-Term Air Quality Trends in North Texas using Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques

While ozone design values have decreased since 2000, the values measured in Denton Airport South (DEN), an exurban region in the northwest tip of the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, remains above those measured in Dallas Hinton (DAL) and Fort Worth Northwest (FWNW), two extremely urbanized regions; in addition, all three sites remained in nonattainment of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) ozone despite reductions in measured NOx and CO concentrations. The region's inability to achieve ozone attainment is tied to its concentration of total non-methane organic compounds (TNMOC). The mean concentration of TNMOC measured at DAL, FWNW, and DEN between 2000 and 2018 were 67.4 ± 1.51 ppb-C, 89.31 ± 2.12 ppb-C, and 220.69 ± 10.36 ppb-C, respectively. Despite being the least urbanized site of the three, the TNMOC concentration measured at DEN was over twice as large as those measured at the other two sites. A factor-based source apportionment analysis using positive matrix factorization technique showed that natural gas was a major contributing source factor to the measured TNMOC concentrations at all three sites and the dominant source factor at DEN. Natural gas accounted for 32%, 40%, and 69% of the measured TNMOC concentration at DAL, FWNW, and DEN, …
Date: May 2020
Creator: Lim, Guo Quan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creeks and Open Spaces: Ned Fritz's Environmental Crusades (open access)

Creeks and Open Spaces: Ned Fritz's Environmental Crusades

Edward C. Fritz was one of the most influential environmentalists in Texas history. Although he took a circuitous route to environmental activism, Fritz evolved into a powerful force fighting on behalf of Texan nature. Participating in substantial actions throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Fritz's contributions to environmental activism resulted in the successful preservation of thousands of acres and multiple wildlife species. Fritz parlayed his legal background into effective activism, beginning his career with a successful lobbying campaign for protection of Harris Hawks. He led the campaign to stop a decades old plan for canalization of the Trinity River. The creation of COST combined Fritz's environmental focus with the concerns of economic conservatives to prevent a billion dollar government funded project that would have significantly altered the river. Fritz then led a cadre who took over efforts to establish a preserve in the Big Thicket national forest. He oversaw the foundation of a protected area far larger than original expectations, capitalizing on the growing awareness of environmental issues in the 1970s. Fritz's interest in the Big Thicket led to a fight against the Forest Service's practice of clearcutting and its effect on Red Cockaded Woodpeckers. Through litigation and …
Date: May 2020
Creator: Ingram, Jared S.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Interorganizational Collaboration in Implementing Urban Greening Policies in Saudi Arabia: An Institutional Collective Action Framework

This dissertation aims to examine the relationship between interorganizational collaboration and the implementation of urban greening policy. Specifically, it discusses bonding and bridging relationships that explain a successful interorganizational collaboration, and to what extent these factors explain the perception of success in the implementation of public programs. The effects of risks of collaboration on the implementation of urban greening policy are also studied. To frame the analysis, this dissertation uses Feiock's institutional collective action (ICA) framework, which aims to understand successful interorganizational collaboration and policy implementation across sectors. The collection of data was carried out in Riyadh City in Saudi Arabia, which is located in the center of Saudi Arabia. In this study, the unit of analysis is the networks of relationships among organizations that work with the Royal Commission for Riyadh City (RCRC). The data were obtained from 44 organizations collaborating to implement urban greening projects in Riyadh City and were collected over 17 days from June 15, 2019 to July 2, 2019. The sampling technique used in this study was snowball sampling. The main statistical methods employed for hypothesis examination were social network analysis (SNA) and ordinary least squares (OLS). The key empirical results indicated that there were …
Date: May 2020
Creator: Alkhurayyif, Mohammed A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Framing a Sacred Fight: Framing Analysis and Collective Identity of the #noDAPL Movement (open access)

Framing a Sacred Fight: Framing Analysis and Collective Identity of the #noDAPL Movement

The #noDAPL movement was an Indigenous-led environmental social movement occurring between 2015 and 2017, in which the Standing Rock Sioux and other American Indian tribes comprising the Oceti Sakowin garnered support to oppose the 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline. Pipeline opponents agreed that the pipeline's construction posed a threat to the health and safety of tribal members and other residents of the area and that the pipeline's path crossed previously-designated tribal treaty boundaries, compromising tribal sovereignty. In this body of work, I utilize Facebook data from the Sacred Stone Camp Facebook page to locate and identify collective action frames and core framing tasks, adhering to social movement framing theory. Further, I provide insight into the movement's most used collective action frames and how their use enabled to movement to maintain occupation at protest camps along the Missouri River, garner resources from participants and gain international social support. I also draw on concepts of pan-Indianism and supratribalism to discuss indigenous collective identity, as well as concepts like relational values and Indigenous traditional knowledge to better assess the nuances of Indigenous environmental activism and how this movement evoked discussions of modern day settler colonialism.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Gaston, Emilia
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Organizational Practices: A Digital Repository's Perspective

This presentation examines collection organization and preservation from the perspective of The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository for cultural heritage and historic materials from across the state of Texas. It focuses on how knowing one’s organizational scope, mission, and collection goals can help shape their materials management.
Date: April 22, 2020
Creator: Mangum, Jake & McIntosh, Marcia
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Design Tips & Tricks for Presentations and Posters

Presentation that highlights the use of basic design principles when creating presentations and posters. It was organized by the UNT Libraries' Career Development Committee and held virtually on May 12, 2020.
Date: May 12, 2020
Creator: Barham, Rebecca
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Dallas Story: The North American Aviation Plant during World War II

During the Second World War the United States mobilized its industrial capacity to become the great "Arsenal of Democracy," as vehicles, ships, and small arms flowed out of American factories. Perhaps the most impressive accomplishment was the mobilization of the aviation industry, which grew rapidly after the war began in Europe. In 1940 the United States produced 24,600,000 pounds of airframe. By 1943 this figure had grown exponentially, with 760,926,600 airframe pounds produced. This was achieved through the cooperation of the United States government and the aviation industry. It required creative techniques in funding and manufacturing, and the construction of expansion facilities throughout the country, including Dallas, Texas. The city was selected as the site of a factory operated by North American Aviation. This plant produced some 18,784 aircraft in all, making it one of the most prolific in the country. This dissertation is a study of the North American factory in Dallas. It begins with decisions leading to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's call for 50,000 aircraft in May of 1940. From there the focus moves to the selection of Dallas as a location, the construction and opening of the factory, its operation, its relations with the local community, and …
Date: August 2020
Creator: Furgerson, Terrance, 1960-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 20, Pages 3177-3388, May 15, 2020 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 20, Pages 3177-3388, May 15, 2020

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 15, 2020
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 29, Pages 4843-5060, July 17, 2020 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 29, Pages 4843-5060, July 17, 2020

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: July 17, 2020
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 19, Pages 2927-3176, May 8, 2020 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 19, Pages 2927-3176, May 8, 2020

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 8, 2020
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History