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A Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain. Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, Signed at the City of Paris, on December 10, 1898. (open access)

A Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain. Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, Signed at the City of Paris, on December 10, 1898.

Book containing the text of the Treaty of Paris (1898) and accompanying papers, including statements from government officials, protocols from the conferences in Paris, France, and reports on colonies, protectorates, and states acquired by the United States via the treaty.
Date: 1899
Creator: United States. Senate.
System: The UNT Digital Library
El Rancho in South Texas: Continuity and Change From 1750 (open access)

El Rancho in South Texas: Continuity and Change From 1750

This book discusses the history of ranching in South Texas, illustrated with photographs that were part of "the first major exhibit to examine the private cattle ranch in South Texas, held in 1994 in the John E. Connor Museum in Kingsville, Texas" (p. ix). Index starts on page 117.
Date: 1994
Creator: Graham, Joe S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Princeton Film Center scrapbook (open access)

Princeton Film Center scrapbook

A scrapbook compiled by the Gordon Knox family containing materials (press releases, newspaper and journal clippings, advertisements, trade notices and other ephemera) about and related to the Princeton Film Center and Gordon Knox film productions. The items contained in the scrapbook were produced between 1941 and 1961.
Date: unknown
Creator: Knox
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune (open access)

A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune

Volume of miscellaneous folklore about Texas and Mexico, including Mexican folktales, Texas folk songs, information about Texas streams and information about racial discrimination in the South. The index begins on page 273.
Date: 1964
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Backwoods to Border (open access)

Backwoods to Border

Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1943
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
System: The UNT Digital Library
Between the Cracks of History: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore (open access)

Between the Cracks of History: Essays on Teaching and Illustrating Folklore

Volume of twenty-one essays about folklore in Texas, including essays about police burials, railroads, graffiti, folk music, dance halls, and other folklore. The index begins on page 279.
Date: 1997
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coffee in the Gourd (open access)

Coffee in the Gourd

Collection of miscellaneous folklore of Texas and Mexico, including folk songs, information about Indian pictographs, legends, superstitions, and weather lore. The index begins on page 105.
Date: 1923
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Corners of Texas (open access)

Corners of Texas

This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including information about folk music, folk arts and crafts, history of Texas, prominent Texas writers, and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 285.
Date: 1993
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coyote Wisdom (open access)

Coyote Wisdom

This volume contains popular folklore of Mexico and Texas, including animal folk stories, Navajo creation myths, discussions about folk characters, discussions about the philosophy of folklore, and other miscellaneous folk stories. The index begins on page 293.
Date: 1938
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds (open access)

Diamond Bessie & The Shepherds

This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including folk dramas, myths, folk music, stories about farming and agriculture, religious folk stories, and information about folk customs, dances and folk art. The index begins on page 157.
Date: 1972
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Features and Fillers: Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore (open access)

Features and Fillers: Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about animals, folk music, weather lore, folk beliefs, legends, folk medicine, poetry and other folktales. The index begins on page 229.
Date: 1999
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk (open access)

Folk Travelers: Ballads, Tales and Talk

This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including traveling anecdotes, folk ballads, folklore in natural history, as well as information about black and white magic, Western animals, and cattle brands. The index begins on page 259.
Date: 1953
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd (open access)

Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd

This volume includes information about the play-party in Oklahoma, folklore of Texas birds, tall tales, folk anecdotes, Texas folk songs and ballads, and other folklore (back cover). The index begins on page 185.
Date: 2000
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Consumer Guide to Better Health Care (open access)

A Consumer Guide to Better Health Care

This document explains the services provided by Medicaid, Medicaid Managed Care, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Children's Medicaid as well as how to access those programs and services.
Date: 2007
Creator: Texas. Health and Human Service Commission.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Children with Special Health Care Needs Services Program (CSHCN): Client Application Form (open access)

Children with Special Health Care Needs Services Program (CSHCN): Client Application Form

Client application form for the Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Services Program.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Your Guide to the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program (open access)

Your Guide to the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program

This booklet provides information about the Medicaid Estate Recovery Program.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Aging and Disability Services.
System: The Portal to Texas History
People First Language : What do you call a person with a disability? A person. (open access)

People First Language : What do you call a person with a disability? A person.

This document provides information on the objective and respectful way to speak about people with disabilities.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities
System: The Portal to Texas History
Queer, Quaint Old San Antonio: Its Climate in Throat and Lung Diseases (open access)

Queer, Quaint Old San Antonio: Its Climate in Throat and Lung Diseases

This book is about the climate of San Antonio, Texas, and its potential benefits to individuals suffering from lung illness and disease.
Date: 1895
Creator: Fisher, C. E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio de Bexar: A Guide and History (open access)

San Antonio de Bexar: A Guide and History

This book serves as a guide and historical sketch of San Antonio, Texas. It includes descriptions of county and church records, interviews with memorable Texans, a discussion of the benefits of San Antonio climate to individuals suffering from lung disease, as well as descriptions of local churches, schools, public halls, parks and other establishments. Sidney Lanier's Historical Sketch is included beginning on page 68.
Date: 1890
Creator: Corner, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Comfort Christmas (open access)

A Comfort Christmas

Book about the history of Christmas in Comfort, Texas and the influence of "German, English and Hispanic cultures" on Christmas celebrations (p. 3). The book includes recipes for German Sweet potato salad, deer sausage, carne guisada con mole, and buneulos, as well as bread, rice and cookies.
Date: 1996
Creator: Bohnert, Paula & Bohnert, Hannah
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comfort Women in Comfort History (open access)

Comfort Women in Comfort History

Book about the history of notable women in Comfort, Texas. The book discusses female school teachers, journalists, religious leaders, free thinkers, artists, authors, and other women who made significant contributions to the establishment of the city of Comfort.
Date: 2008
Creator: Stewart, Mike & Stewart, Anne
System: The Portal to Texas History
El ataque a Ciudad Juarez y los acontecimientos del 14 al 18 de Junio (open access)

El ataque a Ciudad Juarez y los acontecimientos del 14 al 18 de Junio

This piece provides a firsthand account of the attack on Ciudad Juarez by Villistas and related events, including the American incursion. It also provides information regarding the effects of the battle on El Paso, Texas and includes named civilian casualties. The official American response is also noted.
Date: 1919
Creator: Enciso Durán, Xavier
System: The Portal to Texas History
La Ultima Tragedia o El Calvario De Un Gral. Mexicano: Captura! Sentencia! Y Muerte! Del Gral. Felipe Angeles (open access)

La Ultima Tragedia o El Calvario De Un Gral. Mexicano: Captura! Sentencia! Y Muerte! Del Gral. Felipe Angeles

Account describing the death of General Felipe Angeles during the Mexican Revolution
Date: 1920
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Book: "Treasures of the Cathedral of Saltillo, Mexico Family Guide"] (open access)

[Book: "Treasures of the Cathedral of Saltillo, Mexico Family Guide"]

Guidebook created as an accompaniment to an exhibit at the Mexic-Arte Museum entitled "Tesoros de la Catedral de Saltillo, Treasures of the Cathedral of Saltillo, Mexico", which ran from October 18 to December 28, 2002. The guidebook contains information on the both the museum and the exhibit, and includes an in-depth description of the historical, cultural, and religious significance of the exhibition. There are also activities such as trivia quizzes and puzzles that are related to the exhibition included in the book.
Date: 2002
Creator: Zamora, Herlinda & Johnston, Margaret
System: The Portal to Texas History