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They Called Them Soldier Boys: a Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I
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They Called Them Soldier Boys offers an in-depth study of soldiers of the Texas National Guard’s Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I, through their recruitment, training, journey to France, combat, and their return home. Gregory W. Ball focuses on the fourteen counties in North, Northwest, and West Texas where officers recruited the regiment’s soldiers in the summer of 1917, and how those counties compared with the rest of the state in terms of political, social, and economic attitudes. In September 1917 the “Soldier Boys” trained at Camp Bowie, near Fort Worth, Texas, until the War Department combined the Seventh Texas with the First Oklahoma Infantry to form the 142d Infantry Regiment of the 36th Division. In early October 1918, the 142d Infantry, including more than 600 original members of the Seventh Texas, was assigned to the French Fourth Army in the Champagne region and went into combat for the first time on October 6. Ball explores the combat experiences of those Texas soldiers in detail up through the armistice of November 11, 1918. “Ball has done a fine job to describe and analyze the types of men who served—regarding their backgrounds and economic and social status—which fits well …
Date:
March 15, 2013
Creator:
Ball, Gregory W.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Bridge War Recalled
Article concerning toll bridge at the site of Colbert's Ferry on the Red River. In 1929 then Gov. William H. Murray ordered the National Guard to remove barricades put up on the "free" bridge and plow up the Oklahoma approach to the "toll" bridge.
Date:
2013
Creator:
Ruth, Kent
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Text
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams: Leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry
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The military career of General James Monroe Williams spanned both the Civil War and the Indian Wars in the West, yet no biography has been published to date on his important accomplishments, until now. From his birth on the northern frontier, westward movement in the Great Migration, rush into the violence of antebellum Kansas Territory, Civil War commands in the Trans-Mississippi, and as a cavalry officer in the Indian Wars, Williams was involved in key moments of American history. Like many who make a difference, Williams was a leader of strong convictions, sometimes impatient with heavy-handed and sluggish authority. Building upon his political opinions and experience as a Jayhawker, Williams raised and commanded the ground-breaking 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment in 1862. His new regiment of black soldiers was the first such organization to engage Confederate troops, and the first to win. He enjoyed victories in Missouri, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), and Arkansas, but also fought in the abortive Red River Campaign and endured defeat and the massacre of his captured black troops at Poison Spring. In 1865, as a brigadier general, Williams led his troops in consolidating control of northern Arkansas. Williams played a key role in taking Indian …
Date:
May 15, 2013
Creator:
Lull, Robert W.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Civil War Soldiers of Kendall County, Texas: A Biographical Dictionary
Book containing an alphabetical list of persons from Kendall County, Texas who served in the military during the Civil War, with any known biographical information about each person. There is also relevant background information about the area in the preface, and a series of tables at the end of the book, containing additional reference material. A table of contents is on page v.
Date:
2013
Creator:
Kiel, Frank Wilson 1930-
Object Type:
Book
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The Portal to Texas History
Pacific Blitzkrieg: World War II in the Central Pacific
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Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the planning, preparation, and execution of ground operations for five major invasions in the Central Pacific (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, the Marshalls, Saipan, and Okinawa). The commanders on the ground had to integrate the U.S. Army and Marine Corps into a single striking force, something that would have been difficult in peacetime, but in the midst of a great global war, it was a monumental task. Yet, ultimate success in the Pacific rested on this crucial, if somewhat strained, partnership and its accomplishments. Despite the thousands of works covering almost every aspect of World War II in the Pacific, until now no one has examined the detailed mechanics behind this transformation at the corps and division level. Sharon Tosi Lacey makes extensive use of previously untapped primary research material to re-examine the development of joint ground operations, the rapid transformation of tactics and equipment, and the evolution of command relationships between army and marine leadership. This joint venture was the result of difficult and patient work by commanders and evolving staffs who acted upon the lessons of each engagement with remarkable speed. For every brilliant strategic and operational decision of the war, there were thousands of minute actions …
Date:
October 15, 2013
Creator:
Lacey, Sharon Tosi
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Showing the Flag: War Cruiser Karlsruhe and Germandom Abroad
In the early 1920s the Weimar Republic commissioned a series of new light cruisers of the Königsberg class and in July 1926, the keel of the later christened Karlsruhe was laid down. The 570 feet long and almost 50 feet wide ship was used as a training cruiser for future German naval officers. Between 1930 and 1936 the ship conducted in all five good-will tours around the world, two under the Weimar Republic and three under the Third Reich. These good-will tours or gute Willen Fahrten were an important first step in reconciling Germany to the rest of the world and were meant to improve international relations. The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defense carefully orchestrated all stops of the vessels in conjunction with the respective embassies abroad. Final arrangements were made at least six-nine months before the scheduled visits and even small adjustments to the itinerary proved troublesome. Further, all visits were treated as “unofficial presentations.” The mission of the Karlsruhe was twofold: first to extend or renew relations with other nations, and second to foster notions of Heimat and the Germandom (Deutschtum) abroad. The dissertation is divided in two large parts; the individual training cruises with all …
Date:
August 2013
Creator:
De Santiago Ramos, Simone Carlota Cezanne
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
War in Afghanistan: Campaign Progress, Political Strategy, and Issues for Congress
This report describes the current strategic context, the state of the campaign, next steps in the campaign, and what it would take to make campaign gains sustainable; and it offers questions that may be of help to Congress in providing oversight of further U.S. efforts in Afghanistan.
Date:
December 17, 2013
Creator:
Dale, Catherine
Object Type:
Report
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The UNT Digital Library
War in Afghanistan: Campaign Progress, Political Strategy, and Issues for Congress
This report describes the current strategic context, the state of the campaign, next steps in the campaign, and what it would take to make campaign gains sustainable; and it offers questions that may be of help to Congress in providing oversight of further U.S. efforts in Afghanistan.
Date:
August 29, 2013
Creator:
Dale, Catherine
Object Type:
Report
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The UNT Digital Library
Josephus’ Jewish War and the Causes of the Jewish Revolt: Re-examining Inevitability
The Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66 CE can be seen as the culmination of years of oppression at the hands of their Roman overlords. The first-century historian Josephus narrates the developments of the war and the events prior. A member of the priestly class and a general in the war, Josephus provides us a detailed account that has long troubled historians. This book was an attempt by Josephus to explain the nature of the war to his primary audience of predominantly angry and grieving Jews. The causes of the war are explained in different terms, ranging from Roman provincial administration, Jewish apocalypticism, and Jewish internal struggles. The Jews eventually reached a tipping point and engaged the Romans in open revolt. Josephus was adamant that the origin of the revolt remained with a few, youthful individuals who were able to persuade the country to rebel. This thesis emphasizes the causes of the war as Josephus saw them and how they are reflected both within The Jewish War and the later work Jewish Antiquities. By observing the Roman provincial administration spanning 6-66 CE, I argue that Judaea had low moments sprinkled throughout the time but in 66 there was something …
Date:
December 2013
Creator:
Lopez, Javier
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Historical Background and Legal Implications
This report provides historical background on the enactment of declarations of war and authorizations for the use of force and analyzes their legal effects under international and domestic law. It also sets forth their texts in two appendices. The report includes an extensive listing and summary of statutes that are triggered by a declaration of war, a declaration of national emergency, and/or the existence of a state of war. The report concludes with a summary of the congressional procedures applicable to the enactment of a declaration of war or authorization for the use of force and to measures under the War Powers Resolution.
Date:
January 11, 2013
Creator:
Elsea, Jennifer K. & Weed, Matthew C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Parity or Peace: Varying Intensities Caused by Third Party Interventions in Civil War
Paper explores the effects of third-party interventions in modern civil wars, and analyzes the varying effects of strong verses weak interventions.
Date:
2013
Creator:
Craig-Morse, Inanna
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace: Lessons from Peru and Ecuador 1995-1998
This book discusses the boundary dispute war between Ecuador and Peru in 1995 and the role of institutions, leadership, and power played in leading to the war and making peace.
Date:
2013
Creator:
Mares, David R. & Palmer, David Scott
Object Type:
Book
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The Portal to Texas History
Memories of Wartime Wanderings: What I Did in World War II
Personal memoirs of Ann van Wynen Tomas about her time in the U.S. Foreign Service during World War II, serving in South Africa and later at the Dutch Government in Exile, in London.
Date:
2013
Creator:
Thomas, Ann van Wynen & Lincecum, Jerry Bryan, 1942-
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Book
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The Portal to Texas History
Military-diplomatic Adventurism: Communist China's Foreign Policy in the Early Stage of the Korean War (1950-1951)
The thesis studies the relations of Communist China's foreign policy and its military offensives in the battlefield in Korean Peninsula in late 1950 and early 1951, an important topic that has yet received little academic attention. As original research, this thesis cites extensively from newly declassified Soviet and Chinese archives, as well as American and UN sources. This paper finds that an adventurism dominated the thinking and decision-making of Communist leaders in Beijing and Moscow, who seriously underestimated the military capabilities and diplomatic leverages of the US-led West. The origin of this adventurism, this paper argues, lays in the CCP's civil war experience with their Nationalist adversaries, which featured a preference of mobile warfare over positional warfare, and an opportunist attitude on cease-fire. This adventurism ended only when Communist front line came to the verge of collapse in June 1951.
Date:
August 2013
Creator:
Zhong, Wenrui
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
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The UNT Digital Library
“The Indian Character”: Cross-cultural Relations in Indian Territory after the Civil War
Article uses the Indian-Pioneer papers to show a more congenial relationship between white settlers and American Indian residents in Indian Territory.
Date:
Autumn 2013
Creator:
Motes, K. D.
Object Type:
Article
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Pulling History from the Waste Stream: Identification and Collection of Manhattan Project and Cold War Era Artifacts on the Hanford Site
One man�s trash is another man�s treasure. Not everything called �waste� is meant for the refuse pile. The mission of the Curation Program is at direct odds with the remediation objectives of the Hanford Site. While others are busily tearing down and burying the Site�s physical structures and their associated contents, the Curation Program seeks to preserve the tangible elements of the Site�s history from these structures for future generations before they flow into the waste stream. Under the provisions of a Programmatic Agreement, Cultural Resources staff initiated a project to identify and collect artifacts and archives that have historic or interpretive value in documenting the role of the Hanford Site throughout the Manhattan Project and Cold War Era. The genesis of Hanford�s modern day Curation Program, its evolution over nearly two decades, issues encountered, and lessons learned along the way � particularly the importance of upper management advocacy, when and how identification efforts should be accomplished, the challenges of working within a radiological setting, and the importance of �first hand� information � are presented.
Date:
November 13, 2013
Creator:
Marceau, Thomas E. & Watson, Thomas L.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Instructional Approach to Introducing Twentieth-century Piano Music to Piano Students From Beginning to Advanced Levels: a Graded Repertoire for Mastering the Challenges Posed by Logan Skelton’s Civil War Variations
Beginning and intermediate piano students typically study the repertoire of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This pedagogical approach leaves them underprepared to approach compositions written since the latter part of the twentieth-century which are significantly different in terms of harmony, rhythm, meter, and compositional procedure. Therefore, a step-by-step method is necessary to prepare a student for the challenges of learning twentieth and twenty-first century piano music. Civil War Variations (1988), by Logan Skelton, is an excellent example of a piece that presents a number of challenges characteristically found in late twentieth-century piano music. The twenty-five variations that comprise the work incorporate a series of twentieth-century musical techniques, namely complex rhythms, extreme dissonance, frequent metric changes, dissonant counterpoint, the inclusion of blues scales and rhythms, and new notations. The purpose of this study is to identify the technical, musical, structural and notational challenges posed by a work such as Logan Skelton’s Civil War Variations; examination of this piece will lead to suggestions regarding repertoire that a teacher may assign to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students in order to prepare them logically and in a step-by-step fashion to cope with and meet the challenges posed by this and other compositions having similar …
Date:
December 2013
Creator:
Kim, Dajeong
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1514, Chapter 309
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to privileged parking for veterans of World War II.
Date:
June 14, 2013
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
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The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Allie Bowman Burton, Jr., January 16, 2013
Transcript of interview with Allie Bowman Burton, Jr., a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, from Kerrville, Texas. Burton recalls his time at Tivy High School in Kerrville and his experiences as a prisoner of war during the Korean War.
Date:
January 16, 2013
Creator:
Webb, Jeanie Archer
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Allie Bowman Burton, Jr., January 16, 2013
Interview with Allie Bowman Burton, Jr., a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, from Kerrville, Texas. Burton recalls his time at Tivy High School in Kerrville and his experiences as a prisoner of war during the Korean War.
Date:
January 16, 2013
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis & Burton, Allie Bowman, Jr.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Allie Bowman Burton, Jr., January 16, 2013
Interview with Allie Bowman Burton, Jr., a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, from Kerrville, Texas. Burton recalls his time at Tivy High School in Kerrville and his experiences as a prisoner of war during the Korean War.
Date:
January 16, 2013
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis & Burton, Allie Bowman, Jr.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ed Spradling, March 7, 2013
The National Museum of the pacific War presents an interview with Ed Spradling. Spradling grauated from high school and went to work for North American Aviation, building B-24s in Grand Prairie, Texas. When he was old enough, he joined the Merchant Marine. After training, he joined a ship in April, 1945 in San Francisco. Spradling discusses life abord a liberty ship and some of his experiences, including a trip to Manila.
Date:
March 7, 2013
Creator:
Spradling, Ed
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ed Spradling, March 7, 2013
The National Museum of the pacific War presents an interview with Ed Spradling. Spradling grauated from high school and went to work for North American Aviation, building B-24s in Grand Prairie, Texas. When he was old enough, he joined the Merchant Marine. After training, he joined a ship in April, 1945 in San Francisco. Spradling discusses life abord a liberty ship and some of his experiences, including a trip to Manila.
Date:
March 7, 2013
Creator:
Spradling, Ed
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
83rd Texas Legislature, Second Called Session, House Concurrent Resolution 13
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives in memory of World War II veteran Jacinto Romo of El Paso.
Date:
August 19, 2013
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History