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Historical Discord: The Question of Greek Women (open access)

Historical Discord: The Question of Greek Women

Paper seeks to rectify the inaccuracies in previous historians’ analyses of Greek women by investigating the social, political, and economic power held by various women within the Greek world, as demonstrated in art, religion, and literature.
Date: 2017
Creator: Coil, Caitlyn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

History 4263: Palestinian History

Poster for the 2012 University Forum on Teaching & Learning. This poster discusses a project for a UNT history course, History 4263, on Palestinian history. In the course, students explore historical foundations and interpretations of modern Palestinian history.
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Stockdale, Nancy L.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
The History Engine: Doing History with Digital Tools (open access)

The History Engine: Doing History with Digital Tools

Article on the History Engine Project, an online archive consisting of thousands of narratives written and contributed by undergraduates.
Date: September 9, 2009
Creator: Nelson, Robert K.; Nesbit, Scott & Torget, Andrew J., 1978-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Tiny Zebrafish and Their Surprisingly Human-Like Genome Can Benefit Medical Research captions transcript

How Tiny Zebrafish and Their Surprisingly Human-Like Genome Can Benefit Medical Research

Presentation highlighting the use of zebrafish to identify genes relating to predisposition to thromboembolism and cardiovascular disease in people with African ancestry. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 21, 2020
Creator: Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Image of the Future in Russian Communism: Narratives of the Collective Representations in the 1920s in the USSR (open access)

Image of the Future in Russian Communism: Narratives of the Collective Representations in the 1920s in the USSR

This article discusses the image of the future in Russian communism.
Date: 2006
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Importance of Charleston in Southern History (open access)

Importance of Charleston in Southern History

This study describes the history of Charleston, South Carolina before the Civil War.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Miles, Jim Tom
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Imprecision of Precision Medicine: Biomedical Research Must Be More Than Average captions transcript

The Imprecision of Precision Medicine: Biomedical Research Must Be More Than Average

This presentation delves into the lack of precision in precision medicine when it comes to anyone who is not the average research subject, with the average is usually males of European ancestry. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 21, 2020
Creator: Oh, Sam S.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Introduction and Motivation for the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research by Jennifer Wallach] captions transcript

[Introduction and Motivation for the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research by Jennifer Wallach]

Presentation from Jennifer Jensen Wallach, the chair of the Department of History at UNT, to introduce and highlight the conference's origination by Dr. Constance Hilliard and Dr. Denise Perry Simmons.
Date: November 20, 2020
Creator: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Invention of Sectarianism as a Problem of the Middle East

Poster promoting the Global Studies Faculty Seminar visiting speaker series with Dr. Ussama Makdisi, professor of history at Rice University and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies.
Date: April 24, 2014
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Legacy of Stalinism in Modern Russia: Historical Trauma, Memory and Forgetting

This poster presentation discusses research on a transformative instructional initiative on globalizing curriculum. The project involved students learning about the legacy of Stalinism in modern Russia and connecting students to their virtual peers in Russia via the internet.
Date: April 12, 2013
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leveraging Genetic Ancestry to Study Health Disparities captions transcript

Leveraging Genetic Ancestry to Study Health Disparities

This presentation delves into genetic ancestry and health disparities, and it highlights the difference between genetic ancestry, local genetic ancestry, and socio-cultural factors in health disparities. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 20, 2020
Creator: Kittles, Rick
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Lives and Policies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and Their Views on Machiavelli

Poster for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the lives and policies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and their views on Machiavelli.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Pierce, Emily & Verrill, Diane
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Livestock Legacy: A History of the Fort Worth Stockyards Company 1893-1982 (open access)

Livestock Legacy: A History of the Fort Worth Stockyards Company 1893-1982

This dissertation outlines the creation and history of the Fort Worth Stockyards Company from its conception to the time of this dissertation's publication. The Fort Worth Stockyards Company was created by Greenleif W. Simpson and Louville V. Niles. This company would soon cement Fort Worth as the premier livestock producer in America, soon surpassing Chicago.
Date: August 1982
Creator: Pate, J'Nell L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Luther, Herder and Ranke: The Reformation's Impact on German Idealist Historiography (open access)

Luther, Herder and Ranke: The Reformation's Impact on German Idealist Historiography

The influence of Martin Luther on the Idealist philosophy and historical writing of Johann Gottfried Herder and Leopold Ranke Is part of a broader inquiry into the significant impact of the Protestant Reformation on the modern Western world. Herder and Ranke, whose work In historical research and writing spanned a period from the later eighteenth century to the close of the nineteenth century, represented an Idealist generation which sought a new meaning in human history to replace the view of the Enlightenment.
Date: August 1983
Creator: Cook, Lowell Anthony
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Machiavelli's "The Prince" as a Satire

Presentation for the 2007 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on Machiavelli's "The Prince" as a satire.
Date: March 29, 2007
Creator: Kniatt, Stacey & Johnson, Ken
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Machiavelli's 'The Prince' as a Satire: An Exploratory Look at Machiavelli's Works to Determine His True Political Inclinations (open access)

Machiavelli's 'The Prince' as a Satire: An Exploratory Look at Machiavelli's Works to Determine His True Political Inclinations

This paper discusses a research study on Machiavelli's 'The Prince' as a satire. The author argues that 'The Prince' challenges all of Machiavelli's other works and what we know of his life, and that this inconsistency and the knowledge of Machiavelli's opinions give evidence that perhaps 'The Prince' is a satire.
Date: March 29, 2007
Creator: Kniatt, Stacey & Johnson, Ken
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping Texts: Combining Text-Mining and Geo-Visualization To Unlock The Research Potential of Historical Newspapers (open access)

Mapping Texts: Combining Text-Mining and Geo-Visualization To Unlock The Research Potential of Historical Newspapers

Paper on mapping texts and combining text-mining and geo-visualization to unlock the research potential of historical newspapers.
Date: 2011
Creator: Torget, Andrew J., 1978-; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Christensen, Jon & McGhee, Geoff
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping Texts: Examining the Effects of OCR Noise on Historical Newspaper Collections (open access)

Mapping Texts: Examining the Effects of OCR Noise on Historical Newspaper Collections

Book chapter that documents the “Mapping Texts” project, an experiment focused on the problem of OCR noise in historical newspapers.
Date: 2023
Creator: Torget, Andrew J., 1978-
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Milpa Agricultural Placemaking Project at the University of North Texas (open access)

The Milpa Agricultural Placemaking Project at the University of North Texas

Data management plan for the grant, "The Milpa Agricultural Placemaking Project at the University of North Texas."
Date: 2023-09-15/2027-09-14
Creator: Wise, Michael D.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mock Trial on Stalin and Stalinism

This poster describes an experiential learning activity for the UNT course History 5040, Historiography of Stalinism. The goal is to apply critical reasoning to Stalin's politics in a courtroom environment.
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
More than Pleasure: The Pornographic Novel in Eighteenth-Century France (open access)

More than Pleasure: The Pornographic Novel in Eighteenth-Century France

Paper examines the development of pornography and the literary characteristics of pornographic novels in eighteenth-century France, as well as the publication, sales, and censorship thereof.
Date: 2013
Creator: Watkins, Taylor
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Myth of the Besieged Fortress: Soviet Mass Perception in the 1920s - 1930s (open access)

The Myth of the Besieged Fortress: Soviet Mass Perception in the 1920s - 1930s

This work discusses Soviet mass perception from the 1920s to the 1930s. This work was supported by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation, grant No. 805/1998, and by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. The work has also greatly benefitted from the discussion at the workshops held by the Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project at CREES, University of Toronto.
Date: 2002
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nested Subsets of African Diversity as an Alternative to Race for Understanding Global Human Diversity captions transcript

Nested Subsets of African Diversity as an Alternative to Race for Understanding Global Human Diversity

Presentation exploring nucleotide diversity as nested subsets from larger continents/regions. The African continent has very high genetic diversity, but globally, many common alleles are widely shared because they are typically older than human migration out of Africa. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 20, 2020
Creator: Long, Jeffrey C.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s (open access)

The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s

This book chapter discusses the peasant union movement and the quest for the political organization of peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
Date: 2007
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library