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Junior Recital: 2021-03-19 – Veronica Roan, mezzo-soprano

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Junior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music (BM) in Performance degree.
Date: March 19, 2021
Creator: Roan, Veronica
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Eagles Overhead: the History of US Air Force Forward Air Controllers, from the Meuse-Argonne to Mosul

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US Air Force Forward Air Controllers (FACs) bridge the gap between air and land power. They operate in the grey area of the battlefield, serving as an aircrew who flies above the battlefield, spots the enemy, and relays targeting information to control close air support attacks by other faster aircraft. When done well, Air Force FACs are the fulcrum for successful employment of air power in support of ground forces. Unfortunately, FACs in recent times have been shunned by both ground and air forces, their mission complicated by inherent difficulty and danger, as well as by the vicissitudes of defense budgets, technology, leadership, bureaucracy, and doctrine. Eagles Overhead is the first complete historical survey of the US Air Force FAC program from its origins in World War I to the modern battlefield. Matt Dietz examines their role, status, and performance in every US Air Force air campaign from the Marne in 1918, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and finally Mosul in 2017. With the remaking of the post-Vietnam US military, and the impact of those changes on FAC, the Air Force began a steady neglect of the FAC mission from Operation Desert Storm, through the force reductions after …
Date: February 2023
Creator: Dietz, Matt,
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Weekly War: How the Saturday Evening Post Reported World War I

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An elite team of reporters brought the Great War home each week to ten million readers of The Saturday Evening Post. As America’s largest circulation magazine, the Post hired the nation’s best-known and best-paid writers to cover World War I. The Weekly War provides a history of the unique record Post storytellers created of World War I, the distinct imprint the Post made on the field of war reporting, and the ways in which Americans witnessed their first world war. The Weekly War includes representative articles from across the span of the conflict, and Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy complement these works with essays about the history and significance of the magazine, the war, and the writers. By the start of the Great War, The Saturday Evening Post had become the most successful and influential magazine in the United States, a source of entertainment, instruction, and news, as well as a shared experience. World War I served as a four-year experiment in how to report a modern war. The news-gathering strategies and news-controlling practices developed in this war were largely duplicated in World War II and later wars. Over the course of some thousand articles by some of the most …
Date: April 2023
Creator: Dubbs, Chris & Edy, Carolyn M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

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
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Storm Swimmer

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In poems that celebrate survival and renewal, Ernest Hilbert summons the ageless conflict between human affection and the passing of time, recognizing that all we love must eventually disappear. Tender poems of fatherhood weigh against unsettling explorations of natural dangers and intimations of bodily harm. From porn sets to seedy gun ranges and heavy metal tribute nights in crumbling theaters, Hilbert’s eye roves over the desolation and beauty of contemporary America, all the while feeling the irresistible pull of water—what Melville called “the ungraspable phantom of life.”
Date: April 2023
Creator: Hilbert, Ernest
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience : the Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat Medics During the Vietnam War

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Despite all that has been written about Vietnam, the story of the 1-A-O conscientious objector, who agreed to put on a uniform and serve in the field without weapons rather than accept alternative service outside the military, has received scarce attention. This joint memoir by two 1-A-O combat medics, James C. Kearney and William H. Clamurro, represents a unique approach to the subject. It is a blend of their personal narratives—with select Vietnam poems by Clamurro—to illustrate noncombatant objection as a unique and relatively unknown form of Vietnam War protest. Both men initially met during training and then served as frontline medics in separate units “outside the wire” in Vietnam. Clamurro was assigned to a tank company in Tay Ninh province next to the Cambodian border, before reassignment to an aid station with the 1st Air Cavalry. Kearney served first as a medic with an artillery battery in the 1st Infantry Division, then as a convoy medic during the Cambodian invasion with the 25th Infantry Division, and finally as a Medevac medic with the 1st Air Cavalry. In this capacity Kearney was seriously wounded during a “hot hoist” in February 1971 and ended up being treated by his friend Clamurro …
Date: May 2023
Creator: Kearney, James C. & Clamurro, William H.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

CEDAR: The Life and Music of Cedar Walton

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Grammy Award–winning pianist, bandleader, and composer Cedar Walton (1934–2013) is a major figure in jazz, associated with a variety of styles from bebop to funk and famous for composing several standards. Born and raised in Dallas, Walton studied music in Denver, where he jammed with musicians such as Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. In 1955, Walton moved to New York, immediately gaining recognition from notable musicians and nightclub proprietors. When Walton returned to the U.S. after serving abroad in the Army, he joined Benny Golson and Art Farmer’s Jazztet. Later, he became both pianist and arranger for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Next, he worked as part of Prestige Records’s house rhythm section, recording with numerous greats and releasing his own albums. One hallmark of Walton’s impact is his numerous long-term collaborations with giants such as trombonist Curtis Fuller and drummer Billy Higgins. By the end of his career, Walton’s discography, as both band member and bandleader, included many dozens of vaunted recordings with some of the most notable jazz musicians of the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Ben Markley conducted more than seventy-five interviews with friends and family members, musicians who played with or were otherwise …
Date: May 2023
Creator: Ben Markley
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Death and Life in the Big Red One: a Soldier's World War II Journey from North Africa to Germany

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Joe Olexa enlisted in the US Army in December 1940, figuring that if he was going to be in a war, he might as well start training. Assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, nicknamed “The Big Red One,” he served in Company L of its 26th Infantry Regiment for the next four years. Along the way he trained with the division in maneuvers in the United States; shipped to England in 1942; landed at Oran, Algeria, in the Operation Torch landings of November 1942; and fought in Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, and Germany. Olexa was one of the first group of enlistees that brought the division up to full strength in the buildup prior to Pearl Harbor, and was a sergeant by the time he went overseas. He served as a squad leader, platoon sergeant, and acting platoon leader, outlasting nearly all the men in his company. His memoir features accounts of unusual adventures in Tunisia when his battalion was detached from the rest of the division, and presents a detailed and intense account of his platoon’s experiences at El Guettar. Later, Olexa became a “Sea Scout,” going ashore on Sicily the night before the invasion to provide signals to …
Date: March 2023
Creator: Olexa, Joseph P. & Smither, James R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Birdie Meyer, January 17, 2023

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Interview with Birdie Meyer, a registered nurse with a master's in counseling from Speedway, Indiana. Meyer discusses education, experience working as a nurse, learning about maternal mental health issues through Postpartum Support International and Depression After Delivery, working closely with PSI, Wade Bowen fundraising for the organization, training and programs, impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, inclusivity, and resources in the field of maternal mental health.
Date: January 17, 2023
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Gunyon Meyer, Birdie
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2021-04-17 – UNT Opera

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Opera concert performed at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater.
Date: April 17, 2021
Creator: University of North Texas. Division of Vocal Studies. Opera.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sealed

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Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid". Wrapped in Plastic.
Date: 2020
Creator: Evans, Chris Wright
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ignore Natural form and Color

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Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid". Wrapped in Plastic.
Date: 2020
Creator: Evans, Chris Wright
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Blending in to Camouflage

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Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".
Date: 2020
Creator: Evans, Chris Wright
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Nebulea

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Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".
Date: 2020
Creator: Evans, Chris Wright
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conover 101: Intro to Willis Conover [Presentation Notes]

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Notes to accompany a presentation on the life and career of Willis Conover for the Willis Conover Centennial Symposium held virtually on December 11, 2020.
Date: December 11, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Duke Ellington Through the Eyes and Microphone of Willis Conover [Presentation Notes]

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Notes to accompany a presentation on the friendship and collaboration between Willis Conover and Duke Ellington for the 26th International Duke Ellington Study Group Conference. Due to the Covid pandemic, this conference was cancelled early in the morning before it was set to begin.
Date: March 11, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

My Data is So Open-Refined: Make Your Data the High-Class Kind

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Presentation for a workshop on OpenRefine for the Music OCLC Users Group meeting in Norfolk, VA held on February 25-26, 2020.
Date: February 26, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Past Sure Is Tense: Revisiting Rock History Narratives with the John Gilliland Pop Chronicles Interviews [Presentation Notes]

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Notes accompanying a presentation on the interviews present in the John Gilliland Collection, and how they can inform rock music historiography. It was presented at the joint Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association and the Southwest Chapter of the American Musicology Society meeting held on September 24-26, 2020.
Date: September 26, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Texas Ranger Lee Hall: From the Red River to the Rio Grande

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Book is a biography of Texas Ranger Lee Hall, born in North Carolina in 1849 and died in Texas in 1911. His career ranged all over Texas but mainly in South Texas and the Panhandle.
Date: February 2020
Creator: Parson, Chuck
Object Type: Book
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
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

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
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hope for Justice and Power: Broad-based Community Organizing in the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation

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Book is a history of the Industrial Areas Foundation branch in Texas. The Industrial Areas Foundation was founded by Saul Alinsky in Chicago in 1940 and is currently an international advocacy group. The Texas branch has many affiliates throughout the state. This book describes the evolution of those affiliates and their cooperative activities with other advocacy groups.
Date: March 2020
Creator: Staudt, Kathleen
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship: The Survival Story of U.S. Marine George Burlage, a WWII Prisoner-of-War of the Japanese

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U.S. Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942, where the Japanese captured more than 85,000 troops. More than forty percent would not survive World War II. His prisoner-of-war ordeal began at Cabanatuan near Manila, where the death rate in the early months of World War II was fifty men a day. Sensing that Cabanatuan was a death trap, he managed to get transferred to the isolated island of Palawan to help build an airfield for his captors. Malaria and other tropical diseases caused him to be sent to Manila for treatment in 1943 (a year later, 139 of his fellow POWs were massacred on Palawan). After another year of building airfields, Burlage survived a 38-day voyage in the hull of a Japanese hell ship and ended the war as a miner for Mitsubishi in northern Japan. By sheer luck, strength, and a bit of sabotage, he survived and was freed in September 1945 after the Japanese surrendered. He had endured starvation and torture and lost half of his prewar weight, but no one had killed him. After the war Burlage became a journalist and wrote about …
Date: September 15, 2020
Creator: Burlage, Georgianne
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers: Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest

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On a hot summer’s day in Montana, a daring frontier cavalry officer, Powhatan Henry Clarke, died at the height of his promising career. A member of the U.S. Military Academy’s Class of 1884, Clarke graduated dead last, and while short on academic application, he was long on charm and bravado. Clarke obtained a commission with the black troops of the Tenth Cavalry, earning his spurs with these “Buffalo Soldiers.” He evolved into a fearless field commander at the troop level, gaining glory and first-hand knowledge of what it took to campaign in the West. During his brief, action-packed career, Clarke saved a black trooper’s life while under Apache fire and was awarded the Medal of Honor. A chance meeting brought Clarke together with artist Frederic Remington, who brought national attention to Clarke when he illustrated the exploit for an 1886 Harper’s Weekly. The officer and artist became friends, and Clarke served as a model and consultant for future artwork by Remington. Remington’s many depictions of Clarke added greatly to the cavalryman’s luster. In turn, the artist gained fame and fortune in part from drawing on Clarke as his muse. The story of these two unlikely comrades tells much about the …
Date: October 15, 2020
Creator: Langellier, John P. (John Phillip)
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library