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Oral History - Karen Hughes (open access)

Oral History - Karen Hughes

This article is a short biography of journalist and political advisor Karen Hughes, based on an oral history discussing her childhood, education, and career in journalism and advising within the Republican Party.
Date: 2012
Creator: Riddell, Brad & Harper, Savannah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Karen Hughes, April 12, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Karen Hughes, April 12, 2012

Interview with Karen Hughes,a journalist and political advisor who worked in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, and her career at KXAS-TV Channel 5. She also talks about her time as an advisor to George W. Bush, starting when he ran for governor in 1994.
Date: April 12, 2012
Creator: Riddell, Brad & Hughes, Karen, 1957-
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
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 Angela Hale, November 20, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Angela Hale, November 20, 2014

Interview with Angela Hale, managing partner of Red Media Group in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes discussion of her career in television news, political communication strategy, and ultimately starting her own business.
Date: November 20, 2014
Creator: Sigman, Ashlea
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Louis Meade Burton and Patricia Ruth Scott Burton, October 15, 2013 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Louis Meade Burton and Patricia Ruth Scott Burton, October 15, 2013

Interview with Louis Meade Burton and Patricia Ruth Scott Burton, a couple who were involved with the school system in Kerrville, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Burton discuss their family histories, their move move to the area, Pat's work with the Tivy school system, Louis's coaching career, and the flood of 1932. The interview includes photographs of the couple and their family, on pages 27-37.
Date: October 15, 2013
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis; Burton, Louis M. & Burton, Pat
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hunters & Healers: Folklore Types & Topics (open access)

Hunters & Healers: Folklore Types & Topics

Volume of Texan and Mexican folklore, including stories about hunting, folk medicine, ballads, religion and other folklore. The index begins on page 169.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
What's Going On? (In Modern Texas Folklore) (open access)

What's Going On? (In Modern Texas Folklore)

Volume of "a collection of essays by contemporary folklorists who are writing about the customs and traditions and the songs and the stories that are going on now" (inside the front cover). It includes information about the folklore of cowboys, rodeos, chain letters and marijuana, as well as information about country, swing and gospel music. Index begins on page 301.
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 Texas Folklore Society: Volume 2, 1943-1971 (open access)

The Texas Folklore Society: Volume 2, 1943-1971

Book describing the Texas Folklore Society, "includes the publishing history of the TFS books, anecdotes about the gatherings of the Society [...] and the emphasis on singing beginning at Society gatherings" (inside the front cover). The index begins on page 311.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Folklore Society: Volume 3, 1971-2000 (open access)

The Texas Folklore Society: Volume 3, 1971-2000

Book containing information about the publishing history of the Texas Folklore Society, as well as anecdotes about the gatherings of the Society, information about past presidents of the Society, and Society by-laws. The index begins on page 219.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Folklore Society: Volume 1, 1909-1943 (open access)

The Texas Folklore Society: Volume 1, 1909-1943

Book describing the history and publications of the Texas Folklore Society between the years of 1909 and 1943. It includes information about "public songs and ballads; superstitions, signs and omens; cures and peculiar customs; legends; dialects; games, plays and dances; riddles and proverbs" (inside front cover). The index begins on page 317.
Date: 2017
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
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: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
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 Interview with Lee Cullum, November 26, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Lee Cullum, November 26, 2016

Interview with journalist Lee Cullum, the host of "CEO" on KERA-TV in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes discussion of her childhood, education, and career working as a commentator in TV and radio, and writing for a number of newspapers and editing D Magazine.
Date: November 26, 2016
Creator: Porter, Ashley; Vanek, Emily & Cullum, Lee
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

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
I-35 Statewide Corridor Plan: A Path to 2040 (open access)

I-35 Statewide Corridor Plan: A Path to 2040

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Date: October 2016
Creator: Texas. Transportation Planning and Programming Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Evilu Pridgeon, October 24, 2015

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Transcript of an interview with Evilu Pridgeon, educator and longtime Dallas LGBT activist, for the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Pridgeon discusses her childhood in Austin, Texas; education; work history; coming out; Dallas LGBT history; AIDS crisis in Dallas; LGBT activism; The Dallas Way; diversity in the gay community.
Date: October 24, 2015
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Pridgeon, Evilu, 1949-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Adolph Krchnak. Krchnak joined the Army in December of 1944. He completed parachute school. In late 1944, early 1945 he was stationed in the Philippines with the 11th Airborne Division. They served in a traditional infantry role in the Philippines. His division participated in the Liberation of Manila in the spring of 1945. In August of 1945 they traveled into southern Japan as part of the occupation force. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
Date: May 23, 2015
Creator: Krchnak, Adolph
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Adolph Krchnak, May 23, 2015

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Adolph Krchnak. Krchnak joined the Army in December of 1944. He completed parachute school. In late 1944, early 1945 he was stationed in the Philippines with the 11th Airborne Division. They served in a traditional infantry role in the Philippines. His division participated in the Liberation of Manila in the spring of 1945. In August of 1945 they traveled into southern Japan as part of the occupation force. He was honorably discharged in 1946.
Date: May 23, 2015
Creator: Krchnak, Adolph
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History