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Oral History Interview with Robert Warren, March 28, 2022 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Warren, March 28, 2022

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Warren. Warren was born in Frisco, Texas in February 1921. After graduating from high school, he attended Texas A&M participating in the ROTC program for two years. Upon graduation in 1942 he applied for a commission in the United States Army Air Forces and was accepted. After participating in various stages of flight training, he was assigned as a C-47 pilot. Flying the Northern Route over Greenland, he joined the 439th Troop Carrier Wing, 94th Squadron, 9th Air Force in England. He tells of being involved in Operation Market Garden and of crossing the Rhine, where he pulled Waco CG-4 gliders, and of the Battle of the Bulge where he hauled fuel for General Patton’s tanks.
Date: March 28, 2022
Creator: Warren, Robert
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tropical Storm Imelda Twitter Dataset

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Tropical Storm Imelda and the subsequent flooding in the south Texas region. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/DocNow/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 76,420 Tweets and 4,429 media files make up the combined dataset.
Date: 2019-09-10/2019-09-21
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marking the Butterfield: Retracing the Indian Territory Segment of the 1858-61 Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road (open access)

Marking the Butterfield: Retracing the Indian Territory Segment of the 1858-61 Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road

In 2018 the National Park Service recommended that the Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road be designated a National Historic Trail. Sixty years earlier, OHS staff marked this important trade and transit route with historical markers. This article retraces the road, describing the landmarks as they appeared on the 1958 trek as well as their present conditions.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Dragoo, Susan Penn
Object Type: Article
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Ken and Kim, 2019]

Photograph of Ken and Kim standing next to each other outdoors. There is a small wooden fence to their left and a dense cluster of trees behind them. Kim wears sunglasses and a wide-brimmed hat while Ken wears glasses, a flat cap, and a vest. [2019, Fayetteville, AR]
Date: 2019
Creator: Doherty, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chronic Homelessness and the Aging Population: Findings in a Homeless Sample from Arkansas (open access)

Chronic Homelessness and the Aging Population: Findings in a Homeless Sample from Arkansas

Understanding underlying mechanisms and pathways that lead to chronic homelessness would help develop intervention strategies that could help prevent subsequent episodes of homelessness. Quantitative data for this cross-sectional study was gathered by interviewing individuals who were homeless in the State of Arkansas, using a structured survey between 2007 and 2011. Qualitative data was gathered using semi-structured interviews between 2016 and 2018. Chi-square statistics and a multivariate logistic regression model was used to analyze the quantitative data, while phenomenological methods were used to analyze the qualitative data. Nearly half of the study participants identified themselves as being chronically homeless. Chronically homeless adults in this region were significantly more likely to be older men with no family ties, more likely to be victims of domestic violence, have higher rates of physical health problems, and have alcohol and substance abuse problems. Results from the multivariate nominal regression revealed that individuals who reported themselves as chronically homeless were more likely to be in the 50 years or older age group. In addition, study findings highlighted a dynamic interplay between three biopsychosocial risk factors for homelessness. Fostering development of inclusive sustainable communities, intergenerational relationships, and shared housing practices could help ease such social inequities and …
Date: December 2018
Creator: Chekuri, Lakshminarayana
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Louanne Tree 2018]

Close-up photograph of a small, wire tree decorated with beads and pearls. A rectangle of light shines over the sculpture, entering through a nearby window. [2018, Fayetteville, IL]
Date: 2018
Creator: Doherty, Richard
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transborder Aquifers: A Summery of Aquifer Properties, Policies, and Planning Approaches for Texas, Surrounding States and Mexico (open access)

Transborder Aquifers: A Summery of Aquifer Properties, Policies, and Planning Approaches for Texas, Surrounding States and Mexico

Report on the study of groundwater in Texas, nearby states, and in Mexico.
Date: April 2017
Creator: Petrossian, Rima; George, Peter; Bradley, Robert G.; Backhouse, Sarah; Boghici, Radu & Olden, Mark O.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
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: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
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
From Hell to Breakfast (open access)

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
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sunny Slopes of Long Ago (open access)

The Sunny Slopes of Long Ago

Volume of popular folklore of Western America, including ballads, cowboy stories, myths, folk songs and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 201.
Date: 2017
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texian Stomping Grounds (open access)

Texian Stomping Grounds

Collection containing sketches of post-war life in East Texas, including descriptions of early recreations and games, stories about Southern food and cooking, religious anecdotes, Negro folk tales, a first-hand account of a Negro folk play about the life of Christ, and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 159.
Date: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Climate Change Means for Arkansas (open access)

What Climate Change Means for Arkansas

Fact sheet describing state-specific impacts that global warming will have on the people, ecosystems, and wildlife in Arkansas.
Date: August 2016
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bernest Mitchell, July 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Bernest Mitchell, July 27, 2016

Mr. Mitchell was born and raised in Stamps, Arkansas. Mitchell traveled to the Cleveland area after the saw mill in Arkansas was shut down. Mr. Mitchell received his barber's license and started his own barbershop in the 1960s. Mr. Mitchell worked in other industries while sustaining his barber shop. Mr. Mitchell and other members of the Cleveland Black community organized in efforts to integrate Cleveland. They attended several government meetings and negotiated with officials. Mr. Mitchell once showed up at a meeting of the local white citizen council and received death threats after revealing his opinion about the council's proposal of halting integration by providing more funding for the Cleveland Black school. Following the meeting, Mitchell received a death threat by a local pastor. Mitchell ultimately served for decades on the Cleveland school board after being elected in the 1960s.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Howard, Jasmin & Mitchell, Bernest
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clean Power Plan, State at a Glance: Arkansas (open access)

Clean Power Plan, State at a Glance: Arkansas

Document outlining state-specific goals for carbon dioxide emissions and energy efficiency through 2030 for the state of Arkansas.
Date: August 3, 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with L. Clifford Davis, June 11, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with L. Clifford Davis, June 11, 2015

Interview with L. Clifford Davis, an attorney and community leader from Fort Worth, Texas. In this interview, Davis discusses his early life, education, law practice and civil rights activism in Texas and Arkansas.
Date: June 11, 2015
Creator: Davis, L. Clifford; Enriquez, Sandra; Moye, Todd & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Down and Out: a Novel (open access)

Down and Out: a Novel

A creative dissertation consisting of two parts: a novel and a critical preface. The critical preface, titled “Novel without Falsehood” deals directly with David Shields’s Reality Hunger, touching on issues of reality as it pertains to truth, writing, fiction, and contemporary culture. The novel is entitled Down and Out and follows the fortunes of a small town in Arkansas before, during, and after its sole source of employment ceases to exist.
Date: May 2015
Creator: Briseño, J. Andrew
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Arkansas (open access)

FEMA DRF Major Disaster Assistance: Arkansas

The Disaster Relief Fund is managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and is the primary source of funding used to provide assistance following a major disaster declaration. This report contains information on funding provided as a result of a major disaster declaration in Arkansas from fiscal years 2000 to 2013.
Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Richardson, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
MVPA Bankhead Highway 2015 convoy itinerary (open access)

MVPA Bankhead Highway 2015 convoy itinerary

Itinerary for a convoy along Bankhead Highway led by the Military Vehicle Preservation Association (MVPA) from September 16-October 18, 2015.
Date: 2015
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Trammel's Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North

Map showing "Trammel's Trace," the first road from the north (present-day Arkansas) into Texas, used around 1800. It includes notations for abandoned settlements, modern cities, and Caddo villages documented from 1800 to 1840, as well as other historic roads used at the time of Trammel's Trace.
Date: 2015
Creator: Pinkerton, Gary
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History - Janice Tomlin (open access)

Oral History - Janice Tomlin

This article is a short biography of Janice Tomlin, a network television documentary producer, based on an oral history discussing her education and career.
Date: December 1, 2014
Creator: Ogle, Amanda; Levine, Lauren; Sigman, Ashlea & Vela, Brianna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with L. Clifford Davis, April 11, 2014

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Interview with L. Clifford Davis, an attorney known for his work for civil rights from Wilton, Arkansas. Davis discusses growing up in a segregated rural community, his education, time at Philander Smith College, integration in Arkansas, his efforts to gain admission to University of Arkansas Law School, becoming an attorney, reflections on civil rights legislation and its impact, practice in Fort Worth, his decision not to take part in direct action, cases fought, MLK's visit to DFW, supporting housing rights for blacks in Fort Worth, and reflections on inequality, current challenges, and civil responsibility. In appendix is a piece from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about Davis, and two photographs of him.
Date: April 11, 2014
Creator: Millier, Callie & David, L. Clifford
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Janice Tomlin, November 24, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Janice Tomlin, November 24, 2013

Interview with Janice Tomlin, a network television documentary producer. The interview includes discussion of her youth, education, and career as a television producer in New York City, including an expose on Romanian orphanages for 20/20.
Date: November 24, 2013
Creator: Sigman, Ashlea & Tomlin, Janice
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Barkman Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24000
Date: 2013
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History