Oral History -- Heather Hays (open access)

Oral History -- Heather Hays

This article is a short biography of news anchor Heather Hays describing her education and career, as well as her perspectives on technology and social media in relation to journalism.
Date: December 4, 2018
Creator: Hooi-Rodriguez, Nicole
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Heather Hays, November 29, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Heather Hays, November 29, 2018

Interview with Heather Hays discussing her childhood and inspiration to go into journalism, as well as her education and highlights from her career as a news anchor. She also discusses winning Miss Hawaii in 1992 and how it affected her career path, as well as her perspectives on technology and social media.
Date: November 29, 2018
Creator: Hooi-Rodriguez, Nicole & Hays, Heather
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alice Rios, November 14, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Alice Rios, November 14, 2018

Interview with Alice Rios, a former anchor at KRLD radio discussing her childhood in Houston, Texas, education, and highlights from her career in journalism.
Date: November 14, 2018
Creator: Aguilar, Rebecca & Rios, Alice
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary: Oral History of Alice Rios, former KRLD anchor and reporter (open access)

Summary: Oral History of Alice Rios, former KRLD anchor and reporter

This article is a short biography of former radio reporter Alice Rios describing her family and education with highlights from her career as a radio reporter and anchor.
Date: November 2018
Creator: Sigman, Ashlea
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Janet St. James, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Janet St. James, 2018

Interview with Janet St. James describing her motivation to become a journalist and thoughts about journalism as a field, with highlights from her career, particularly her work in Dallas reporting on health and crime stories and winning an Excellence of Journalism award from the Press Club of Dallas. She also talks about her background and education, as well as her personal life.
Date: October 26, 2018
Creator: Owens, Brittany; Reyes, Blanca; Maxwell, Bailey & St. James, Janet
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2803, Chapter 869 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2803, Chapter 869

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the nonsubstantive revision of certain local laws concerning water and wastewater special districts, including conforming amendments.
Date: June 15, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with George and Wanda Holcombe, January 2, 2017

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Interview with George Holcombe, a Methodist pastor and civil rights activist from Houston, Texas, and his wife and associate Wanda, from Sims, Texas. The Holcombes discuss their family origins, initial exposure to racial problems and civil rights, their respective educations, pastoral work in Baton Rouge and Chicago, the Ku Klux Klan and dangers encountered, work with the Ecumenical Institute of Chicago and empowering black communities, the 1968 Chicago riots, Fifth City, and similar work in Australia and the Philippines.
Date: January 2, 2017
Creator: Czap, Joseph; Holcombe, George & Holcombe, Wanda
Object Type: Book
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: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Folk Art in Texas (open access)

Folk Art in Texas

This book describes popular folk art of Texas, including basket weaving, hat-making, yard art, sculptures, murals, cemetery art, quilt-making, tattoo art, and other miscellaneous folk art. The index begins on page 198.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Folklore of Texan Cultures (open access)

The Folklore of Texan Cultures

This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of various ethnic and religious groups residing in Texas, including songs, myths, legends, and other essays. The index begins on page 363.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Oral History Article: Becky Diaz] (open access)

[Oral History Article: Becky Diaz]

This article is a short biography of journalist Becky Diaz, based on an oral history discussing her education and career.
Date: December 5, 2016
Creator: Unogwu, Rita; Cardena, Luissana & Russell, Jasmine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Becky Diaz, Fall 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Becky Diaz, Fall 2016

Interview with journalist Becky Diaz describing how she became interested in media communications as well as her education and work experience in radio and television.
Date: 2016-11~
Creator: Unogwu, Rita; Russell, Jasmine; Cardena, Luissana & Diaz, Becky
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

[The Melvins, Napalm Death, Melt Banana poster]

Poster advertising the Savage Imperial Death March tour, a North American concert tour by The Melvins, Napalm Death, and Melt Banana, in March, April, and May of 2016. Linoleum-cut print poster features a central image of a skeleton wearing a German Imperial Army uniform, with event details printed on either side and below, in black, white, and red ink. Three Texas dates were included in the tour, in Dallas, Austin, and Houston.
Date: 2016
Creator: Haze XXL
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cowboys, “Queers,” and Community: the AIDS Crisis in Houston and Dallas, 1981-1996 (open access)

Cowboys, “Queers,” and Community: the AIDS Crisis in Houston and Dallas, 1981-1996

This thesis examines the response to the AIDS crisis in Houston and Dallas, two cities in Texas with the most established gay communities highest number of AIDS incidences. Devoting particular attention to the struggles of the Texas’ gay men, this work analyzes the roadblocks to equal and compassionate care for AIDS, including access to affordable treatment, medical insurance, and the closure of the nation’s first AIDS hospital. In addition, this thesis describes the ways in which the peculiar nature of AIDS as an illness transformed the public perception of sickness and infection. This work contributes to the growing study of gay and lesbian history by exploring the transformative effects of AIDS on the gay community in Texas, a location often forgotten within the context of the AIDS epidemic.
Date: August 2014
Creator: Bundschuh, Molly Ellen
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Bruce Monroe, November 9, 2013

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Interview with Bruce Monroe from San Antonio, Texas. Monroe discusses attending Texas A&M, coming out, the gay scene in Houston and Florida, the start of the AIDS epidemic, living in Dallas and work with the Dallas Gay Alliance, becoming president of the DGA, changing its name, the Dallas Buyers Club, work in Washington DC, living with HIV, Dallas Way, and art.
Date: November 9, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Monroe, Bruce
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Michael Hurd, May 28, 2013

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Interview with Michael Hurd, a journalist and member of the Texas Black History Preservation Project from Houston, Texas. Hurd discusses growing up in Texarkana and Houston, his education and service in the Air Force, work with the Houston Post and USA Today, Juneteenth, researching black history, the Texas Black History Preservation Project and related efforts, being an historian, the history of Juneteenth and emancipation in Texas, and civil rights. In appendix are photographs of Hurd, clippings of his reporting, and URLs to videos he was involved in.
Date: May 26, 2013
Creator: Turner, Elizabeth Hays & Hurd, Michael
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gayle Reaves-King, April 4, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Gayle Reaves-King, April 4, 2012

Interview with Gayle Reaves-King,a journalist in Fort Worth, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, family life, and her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Ayers, Cesta & Reaves-King, Gayle
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012

Interview with Rena Pederson, a former journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers, the books she has written, and her work in communications and public affairs.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Harding, Anne; Dann, Lori & Pederson, Rena
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gayle Reaves-King (open access)

Gayle Reaves-King

This article is a short biography of journalist Gayle Reaves-King, based on an oral history discussing her childhood, education, and career.
Date: 2012
Creator: Alford, Jimmy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Raul Rodriguez Arreola, November 28, 2011 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Raul Rodriguez Arreola, November 28, 2011

Interview with Raul Rodriguez Arreola, a former postal worker from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Arreola talks about growing up in the area, local places and people, serving in the Gideons, and working at the Post Office. Mr. Arreola's second wife, Irene, was present for the interview and makes a comments throughout. The interview transcript includes pictures of Mr. Arreola, his family, and the community, on pages 28-35.
Date: November 28, 2011
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis & Arreola, Raul Rodriguez
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Oral History Interview with Robert Prince Jr.] (open access)

[Oral History Interview with Robert Prince Jr.]

Interview with Robert Prince Jr., doctor who helped fight for safe, legal abortions. Prince discusses his upbringing and family history, his time in college and in the Korean war, and his time being a black doctor before integration.
Date: September 12, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dallas Journal, Volume 56, 2010 (open access)

The Dallas Journal, Volume 56, 2010

Annual publication containing genealogical information about families in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding area, including family histories, lists of records (births, deaths, registration, etc.), correspondence, and other documentation. Name index begins on page 95.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Dallas Genealogical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Journal, Volume 55, 2009 (open access)

The Dallas Journal, Volume 55, 2009

Annual publication containing genealogical information about families in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding area, including family histories, lists of records (births, deaths, registration, etc.), correspondence, and other documentation. Name index begins on page 97.
Date: October 2009
Creator: Dallas Genealogical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dallas Journal, Volume 54, 2008 (open access)

The Dallas Journal, Volume 54, 2008

Annual publication containing genealogical information about families in Dallas, Texas and the surrounding area, including family histories, lists of records (births, deaths, registration, etc.), correspondence, and other documentation. Name index begins on page 104.
Date: October 2008
Creator: Dallas Genealogical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History