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Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department
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Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nation’s largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city. Prominent historical figures who have brushed shoulders with Houston’s Finest over the past 175 years include Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, O. Henry, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hatchet wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, the Hilton Siamese Twins, blues musician Leadbelly, oilman Silver Dollar Jim West, and many others. The Houston Police Department was one of the first cities in the South to adopt fingerprinting as an identification system and use the polygraph test, and under the leadership of its first African American police chief, Lee Brown, put the theory of neighborhood oriented policing into practice in the 1980s. The force has been embroiled in controversy and high profile criminal cases as well. Among the cases chronicled in the book are …
Date:
November 15, 2012
Creator:
Roth, Mitchel P.
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The UNT Digital Library
Lake Houston Facilities Project Annual Budget: 2012
Proposed budget for the Coastal Water Authority Lake Houston Facilities Project outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date:
November 9, 2011
Creator:
Coastal Water Authority (Tex.)
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The Portal to Texas History
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Operating Budget: 2017
Proposed budget for University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date:
August 25, 2016
Creator:
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of the University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2015-2016, Graduate
Annual graduate catalog of the University of Houston-Clear Lake describing the school, admission requirements, tuition, financial aid, departments, and classes for the 2015-2016 school year.
Date:
2015
Creator:
University of Houston--Clear Lake
System:
The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Operating Budget: 2019
Proposed budget for the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date:
August 10, 2018
Creator:
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
System:
The Portal to Texas History
From Hell to Breakfast
Volume of popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including religious anecdotes, stories about Native American dances, stories about petroleum and oil fields, folk songs, legends, customs and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 205.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Texas Folklore Society
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore
Volume of essays about African-American folklore, including reminiscences of African-American folk culture in Texas, studies of specific genres of folklore, information about Texas-African food-ways, studies of specific performers, information about songs and other folklore. The index begins on page 353.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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:
2017
Creator:
Texas Folklore Society
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey
This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society "contains a sample of the research that members of the Society were doing at the turn of the millennium as represented at the 1998, 1999, and 2000 meetings." The volume covers "a wide variety of contemporary and historical topics," including baby lore, stories about notable women, stories about food and cooking, information about the Model T Ford, and more (inside front cover). The index begins on page 339.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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:
2017
Creator:
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Catalog of the University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2012-2013, Undergraduate
Undergraduate catalog of the University of Houston-Clear Lake for the 2012-2013 school year outlining general school information, classes, and degree requirements.
Date:
2012
Creator:
University of Houston--Clear Lake
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of the University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2014-2015, Undergraduate
The 2014-2015 undergraduate catalog for University of Houston-Clear Lake outlining general information about the campus, courses, faculty, and degree requirements.
Date:
2014
Creator:
University of Houston--Clear Lake
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lake Houston Facilities Project Annual Budget: 2017
Proposed budget for the Coastal Water Authority Lake Houston Facilities Project outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Coastal Water Authority (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Gulf Coast, September 2011
List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Gulf Coast Texas area.
Date:
September 2011
Creator:
Primary Care Case Management
System:
The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Operating Budget: 2015
Operating budget for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for fiscal year 2015, including information about budget rules and procedures, and summaries for expected income and expenses for various funds.
Date:
August 21, 2014
Creator:
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Gulf Coast, June 2011
List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Gulf Coast Texas area.
Date:
June 2011
Creator:
Primary Care Case Management
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Gulf Coast, December 2011
List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Gulf Coast Texas area.
Date:
December 2011
Creator:
Primary Care Case Management
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trinity River Water Conveyance Project Annual Budget: 2014
Proposed budget for the Trinity River Water Conveyance Project outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation, during fiscal year 2014.
Date:
Autumn 2013
Creator:
Coastal Water Authority
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lake Houston Facilities Project Annual Budget: 2013
Proposed budget for the Coastal Water Authority Lake Houston Facilities Project outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date:
2012
Creator:
Coastal Water Authority (Tex.)
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
System:
The Portal to Texas History