Faculty recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

A faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music in Voertman Hall.

Student performances performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall

A student recital presented at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

A Cappella concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

UNT A Cappella Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Tracking the Texas Rangers is an anthology of sixteen previously published articles, arranged in chronological history, covering key topics of the intrepid and sometimes controversial law officers named the Texas Rangers. Determining the role of the Rangers as the state evolved and what they actually accomplished for the benefit of the state is a difficult challenge—the actions of the Rangers fit no easy description. There is a dark side to the story of the Rangers; during the war with Mexico, for example, some murdered, pillaged, and raped. Yet these same Rangers eased the resultant United States victory. Even their beginning and the first use of the term “Texas Ranger” have mixed and complex origins. Tracking the Texas Rangers covers topics such as their early years, the great Comanche Raid of 1840, and the effective use of Colt revolvers. Article authors discuss Los Diablos Tejanos, Rip Ford, the Cortina War, the use of Hispanic Rangers and Rangers in labor disputes, and the recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker and the capture of John Wesley Hardin. The selections cover critical aspects of those experiences—organization, leadership, cultural implications, rural and urban life, and violence. In their introduction, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. …

While there is wide scholarship on the Texas Revolution, there is no comparable volume on the role of women during that conflict. Most of the many works on the Texas Revolution include women briefly in the narrative, such as Emily Austin, Suzanna Dickinson, and Emily Morgan West (the Yellow Rose), but not as principal participants. Women and the Texas Revolution explores these women in much more depth, in addition to covering the women and children who fled Santa Anna’s troops in the Runaway Scrape, and examining the roles and issues facing Native American, Black, and Hispanic women of the time. Like the American Revolution, women’s experiences in the Texas Revolution varied tremendously by class, religion, race, and region. While the majority of immigrants into Texas in the 1820s and 1830s were men, many were women who accompanied their husbands and families or, in some instances, braved the dangers and the hardships of the frontier alone. Black, Hispanic, and Native American women were also present in Mexican Texas. Whether Mexican loyalist or Texas patriot, elite planter or subsistence farm wife, slaveholder or slave, Anglo or black, women helped settle the Texas frontier and experienced the uncertainty, hardships, successes, and sorrows of …

Segment by Dennis Fisher, conductor of the UNT Symphonic Band, announcing a concert featuring works by composer Don Gillis to celebrate his 100th birthday.

Interview with Dennis Fisher, conductor of the UNT Symphonic Band, discussing the background of the concert to celebrate the centennial of Don Gillis' birthday. The segment originally aired during the concert's intermission.

A faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

UNT Symphony Orchestra Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Orchestra concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

A jazz faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

UNT Choralfest! Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Choir concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Graduate Artist Certificate in Music Performance.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Graduate Artist Certificate in Music Performance.

UNT Symphonic Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

UNT Symphonic Band Concert presented in the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Interview with Ramon Ruiz, a civil servant of the Department of Education and advocate for Hispanic education from La Copita, Texas. Ruiz discusses his family history, growing up, school in Kingsville, local relations between Mexicans and white people, high school football, playing for North Texas State, becoming a coach for elementary school, joining the Job Corps, teaching inmates, working with school districts on desegregation in Texas, and work on various federal education programs in Washington with an emphasis on Hispanic communities and cooperation with Mexico. In appendix is a biography of Ruiz and his resumé.

A faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.