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Coalition Contributions to Countering the Islamic State (open access)

Coalition Contributions to Countering the Islamic State

This report discusses the formation of the Islamic State. Some 60 nations and partner organizations agreed to participate, contributing either military forces or resources (or both) to the campaign. In Brussels in December 2014, these 60 partners agreed to organize themselves along five "lines of effort," with at least two countries in the lead for each.
Date: August 24, 2016
Creator: McInnis, Kathleen J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances (open access)

Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances

This report examines developments in U.S. policy restricting travel and remittances to Cuba, including significant changes that have occurred, current permissible travel and remittances, enforcement of the travel restrictions, and debate on lifting the travel restrictions.
Date: August 24, 2016
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iran's Foreign Policy (open access)

Iran's Foreign Policy

This report provides an overview of Iran's foreign policy, which has been a subject of numerous congressional hearings and of sanctions and other legislation for many years. The report analyzes Iranian foreign policy as a whole and by region.
Date: August 24, 2016
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections (open access)

Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections

This report provides the results of recent elections in Latin America and the Caribbean. It includes three tables organized by region, containing the date of each country's independence, the name of the newly elected president or prime minister, and the projected date of the next election. Information in this report was gathered from numerous sources, including the U.S. State Department, Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA's) World Fact Book, International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Election Guide, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and other news sources.
Date: August 24, 2016
Creator: DeBruyne, Nese F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Enthalpies of solution and enthalpies of solvation of organic solutes in ethylene glycol at 298.15 K: prediction and analysis of intermolecular interaction contributions

This article studies thermochemistry of solvation of inert gases and organic solutes in ethylene glycol was thoroughly studied using solution calorimetry technique.
Date: December 24, 2016
Creator: Stolov, Mikhail; Zaitseva, Ksenia V.; Varfolomeev, Mikhail A. & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Evolution of Normal Galaxy X-Ray Emission Through Cosmic History: Constraints from the 6 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (open access)

The Evolution of Normal Galaxy X-Ray Emission Through Cosmic History: Constraints from the 6 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South

This article presents measurements of the evolution of normal-galaxy X-ray emission from z ≈ 0-7 using local galaxies and galaxy samples in the ≈6 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) survey.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Lehmer, Bret; Basu-Zych, A.; Mineo, S.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Eufrasio, R. T.; Fragos, T. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs (open access)

The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs

This article presents X-ray source catalogs for the ≈7 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CF-S), which covers a total area of 484.2 arcmin².
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Luo, Bin; Brandt, William Nielsen; Xue, Yongquan; Lehmer, Bret; Alexander, David M.; Bauer, Franz E. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 2016 (open access)

North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 2016

Weekly student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: March 24, 2016
Creator: Friedman, Nicholas
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Crosby County News (Ralls, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 24, 2016 (open access)

Crosby County News (Ralls, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 24, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Ralls, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 2016 (open access)

The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Gilmer, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 24, 2016
Creator: Parker, Vic
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2016 (open access)

The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Gilmer, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 24, 2016
Creator: Parker, Vic
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Texas Press (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 2016 (open access)

East Texas Press (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 24, 2016
Creator: Pate, Chad
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Texas Press (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2016 (open access)

East Texas Press (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 24, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 24, 2016
Creator: Bryant, Jack
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 141, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 24, 2016 (open access)

Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 141, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Mineola, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 24, 2016
Creator: Newman, Doris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Finance Report, Volume 84, Number 3, June 24, 2016 (open access)

Texas State Finance Report, Volume 84, Number 3, June 24, 2016

The report highlights key provisions of HB1 by otto, the general appropriations act for fiscal 2016-17 and HB2 by otto, the supplemental appropriations and reduction act. It gives an overview of the fiscal 2016-17 budget.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Emilio Abeyta, June 24, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Emilio Abeyta, June 24, 2016

Emelio E. Abeyta was born in the Santa Rosa, New Mexico area. His family moved to Littlefield for his father’s work. Abeyta began attending Catholic seminary in Santa Fe, New Mexico and then Ohio as a teenager. He served as a priest in various West Texas towns. While serving in Slaton, Texas, Abeyta ran for school board, becoming the first ethnic Mexican school board member and aiding in the integration of the town’s schools. He left the priesthood to work for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Afterwards, he attended law school in the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He returned to West Texas, Lubbock, to practice law. In Lubbock Abeyta also ran for a judgeship.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Abeyta, Emilio; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Olga Aguerro, June 24, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Olga Aguerro, June 24, 2016

Olga Aguero was born in Wilson, Texas, where she graduated from Wilson High School. After high school, she worked with the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project and federal project. Olga Aguero moved to Lubbock where she began working as a writer and add seller for El Editor newspaper. She married the owner and founder of El Editor, Chicano actavist and Raza Unida Party state representative candidate Bidal Aguero. Olga Aguero also worked for the Texas Tech University Press, became the first female president of Lubbock’s LULAC chapter, and now leads El Editor.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Aguerro, Olga; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Anita Carmona-Harrison, June 24, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Anita Carmona-Harrison, June 24, 2016

Maria Anita Carmona Harrison was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas. She grew up in the city’s Guadalupe neighborhood, and she attended an all “Mexican” school before entering integrated schools in Lubbock. After graduating from Lubbock High School, Carmona Harrison earned a degree in elementary education from Texas Tech University —becoming the first Chicana educated entirely in Lubbock public schools to graduate from the university. She taught in several Lubbock schools.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Carmona-Harrison, Anita; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mabel Briggs, June 24, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Mabel Briggs, June 24, 2016

Oral history interview with Mabel Briggs, who discusses growing up in a segregated community, her parents' insistence on her "passing" as white, and her struggles as a black woman in white-male-dominated environments.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Briggs, Mabel; Grevious, Danielle & Bobadilla, Eladio
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Price, June 24, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Richard Price, June 24, 2016

Price discussed his family's emphasis on education, his experiences with segregation and discrimination in Texas and elsewhere, his time in the military, and his life's work in higher education and civil rights.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Grevious, Danielle; Bobadilla, Eladio & Price, Richard
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Vernon Durden, June 24, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Vernon Durden, June 24, 2016

Discussed growing up in a segregated Beaumont, his family's entrepreneurial background, and his work with the community over the past several decades.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Durden, Vernon & Grevious, Daniell
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Kenneth Estes, June 24, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Kenneth Estes, June 24, 2016

Mr. Estes was born in a small town in Texas. He spent time in the military before coming to Lufkin in the 1970s. He then worked for Lufkin Industries. His interview focuses on life in small-town Texas, his time in the military, labor activism at Lufkin Industries, and how Lufkin has changed over time.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Estes, Kenneth; Howard, Jasmin & May, Meredith
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Larry Kegler, June 24, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Larry Kegler, June 24, 2016

Mr. Kegler was born in Lufkin and raised in North Lufkin. In eleventh grade, his parents forced him to be part of voluntary integration; he was one of six African-American children to enter Lufkin ISD in his grade. He then spent time in the military before returning to Lufkin to work at the State School. He served as city councilman and on the school board. In his interview, Mr. Kegler describes segregation in Lufkin, the long process of integration, life as an African-American in the military, and his politician and civic activism.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: May, Meredith & Kegler, Larry
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charlotte Stokes, June 24, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Charlotte Stokes, June 24, 2016

Mrs. Stokes was born and raised in Nacogdoches. She is the daughter of Arthur Weaver, the founder of the NAACP in Nacogdoches. She then became a teacher in Washington DC and St. Louis. She returned to Nacogdoches in the late 1970s, where she worked at Head Start. Retired now, she is active in civic organizations, particularly the annual Juneteenth celebration. In her interview, Mrs. Stokes describes her childhood in Nacogdoches, the difficulties of segregation, her father's activism, and the community activism she's been involved in in Nacogdoches since her return in the 1970s.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Howard, Jasmine; May, Meredith & Stokes, Charlotte
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History