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Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
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In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to challenge their state’s 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. They agreed to join a lawsuit being put together by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLD. Two years later—after tense battles in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas and in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, after sitting through oral arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges—they won the right to marry deep in the heart of Texas. But the road they traveled was never easy. Accidental Activists is the deeply moving story of two men who struggled to achieve the dignity of which Justice Anthony Kennedy spoke in a series of Supreme Court decisions that recognized the “personhood,” the essential humanity of gays and lesbians. Author David Collins tells Mark and Vic’s story in the context of legal and …
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August 2017
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Collins, David
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The UNT Digital Library
Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado: The Assassination of J. W. Jarrott, a Forgotten Hero
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In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led a band of twenty-five homesteader families toward the Llano Estacado in far West Texas, newly opened for settlement by a populist Texas legislature. But frontier cattlemen who had been pasturing their herds on the unfenced prairie land were enraged by the encroachment of these “nesters.” In August 1902 a famous hired assassin, Jim Miller, ambushed and murdered J. W. Jarrott. Who hired Miller? This crime has never been solved, until now. Award-winning author Bill Neal investigates this cold case and successfully pieces together all the threads of circumstantial evidence to fit the noose snugly around the neck of Jim Miller’s employer. What emerges from these pages is the strength of intriguing characters in an engrossing narrative: Jim Jarrott, the diminutive advocate who fearlessly champions the cause of the little guy. The ruthless and slippery assassin, Deacon Jim Miller. And finally Jarrott’s young widow Mollie, who perseveres and prospers against great odds and tells the settlers to “Stay put!”
Date:
July 2017
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Neal, Bill
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The UNT Digital Library
Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy
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Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about the tumultuous Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920? And how to deal with myths and legends such as One Riot, One Ranger? Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy is the authors’ answer to these questions, a one-volume history of the Texas Rangers. The authors begin with the earliest Rangers in the pre-Republic years in 1823 and take the story up through the Republic, Mexican War, and Civil War. Then, with the advent of the Frontier Battalion, the authors focus in detail on each company A through F, relating what was happening within each company concurrently. Thereafter, Alexander and Brice tell the famous episodes of the Rangers that forged their legend, and bring the story up through the twentieth century to the present day in the final chapters.
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July 2017
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Alexander, Bob & Brice, Donaly E.
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The Ranger Ideal
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Established in Waco in 1968, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum honors the iconic Texas Rangers, a service which has existed, in one form or another, since 1823. They have become legendary symbols of Texas and the American West. Thirty-one Rangers, with lives spanning more than two centuries, have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame. In The Ranger Ideal Volume 1: Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1823-1861, Darren L. Ivey presents capsule biographies of the seven inductees who served Texas before the Civil War. He begins with Stephen F. Austin, “the Father of Texas,” who laid the foundations of the Ranger service, and then covers John C. Hays, Ben McCulloch, Samuel H. Walker, William A. A. “Bigfoot” Wallace, John S. Ford, and Lawrence Sul Ross. Using primary records and reliable secondary sources, and rejecting apocryphal tales, The Ranger Ideal presents the true stories of these intrepid men who fought to tame a land with gallantry, grit, and guns. This Volume 1 is the first of a planned three-volume series covering all of the Texas Rangers inducted into the Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas.
Date:
October 2017
Creator:
Ivey, Darren L.
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The UNT Digital Library
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3
Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 1-3.
Date:
January 2017
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Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
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The Portal to Texas History
Texas Legislative Glossary
Document defining legal terms used in Texas legislation.
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January 2017
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Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council.
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The Portal to Texas History
Legislative Lexicon
Book from the Texas Senate Research Center which is like a legislative Lexicon that helps understand legislative vocabulary better.
Date:
January 2017
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
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The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3
Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 1-3.
Date:
January 2017
Creator:
Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
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The Portal to Texas History
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 1-3
Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 1-3.
Date:
January 2017
Creator:
Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
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The Portal to Texas History
Texas Senate Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Article 3
Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas Senate. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to article 3.
Date:
January 2017
Creator:
Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Article 3
Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to article 3.
Date:
January 2017
Creator:
Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2015 to 2019, Articles 3-5
Compilation or recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2015-2019, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 3-5.
Date:
January 2017
Creator:
Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
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The Portal to Texas History
College of Music Program Book 2016-2017: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 3
Ensemble performances program book from the 2016-2017 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2017
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
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The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2016-2017: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 1
Ensemble performances program book from the 2016-2017 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2017
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
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The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2016-2017: Student Performances, Volume 2
Student performances program book from the 2016-2017 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2017
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2016-2017: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 2
Ensemble performances program book from the 2016-2017 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2017
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2016-2017: Scholarships & Departmental Recitals
Scholarship performances and departmental recitals program book from the 2016-2017 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2017
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
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The UNT Digital Library
College of Music Program Book 2016-2017: Student Performances, Volume 1
Student performances program book from the 2016-2017 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date:
2017
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
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The UNT Digital Library
Graham Barnett: A Dangerous Man
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Graham Barnett was killed in Rankin, Texas, on December 6, 1931. His death brought an end to a storied career, but not an end to the legends that claimed he was a gunman, a hired pistolero on both sides of the border, a Texas Ranger known for questionable shootings in Company B under Captain Fox, a deputy sheriff, a bootlegger, and a possible “fixer” for both law enforcement and outlaw organizations. In real life he was a good cowboy, who provided for his family the best way he could, and who did so by slipping seamlessly between the law enforcement community and the world of illegal liquor traffickers. Stories say he killed unnumbered men on the border, but he stood trial only twice and was acquitted both times. Barnett lived in the twentieth century but carried with him many of the attitudes of old frontier Texas. Among those beliefs was that if there were problems, a man dealt with them directly and forcefully—with a gun. His penchant to settle a score with gunplay brought him into confrontation with Sheriff W. C. Fowler, a former friend, who shot Barnett with the latter’s own submachine gun on loan. One contemporary summed it …
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Coffey, James L.; Drake, Russell M. & Barnett, John T.
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The UNT Digital Library
Ornament
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In this debut collection, Anna Lena Phillips Bell explores the foothills of the Eastern U.S., and the old-time Appalachian tunes and Piedmont blues she was raised to love. With formal dexterity—in ballads and sonnets, Sapphics and amphibrachs—the poems in Ornament traverse the permeable boundary between the body and the natural world. The contents include: Midafternoon -- Qualifications for one to be climbed by a vine -- Trillium -- Ornament -- Piedmont -- Pears -- Fall swim -- Trifoliate orange -- Unhomemaking -- Mapping -- Girl at the state line -- I'm going back to North Carolina -- Unfinished story -- Limax maximus -- Knot -- The waxweed girl -- Wand -- Proem -- Strapless -- Dishwashing -- Shade -- Crosses -- Bonaparte crossing the Rhine -- Strike -- Green man -- And not look back -- Girl at the state line -- Stitch -- To do in the new year -- The royal typewriter company delivers by parachute, 1927 -- Sunday -- Nesting -- When the fire comes down from heaven -- Honeysuckle -- Early blackberries -- Roustabout -- Overture -- June swim -- Sprout wings and fly -- Hush.
Date:
April 2017
Creator:
Bell, Anna Lena Phillips
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The UNT Digital Library
Sutherland Springs, Texas: Saratoga on the Cibolo
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In Sutherland Springs, Texas, Richard B. McCaslin explores the rise and fall of this rural community near San Antonio primarily through the lens of its aspirations to become a resort spa town, because of its mineral water springs, around the turn of the twentieth century. Texas real estate developers, initially more interested in oil, brought Sutherland Springs to its peak as a resort in the early twentieth century, but failed to transform the farming settlement into a resort town. The decline in water tables during the late twentieth century reduced the mineral water flows, and the town faded. Sutherland Springs’s history thus provides great insights into the importance of water in shaping settlement. Beyond the story of resort spa aspirations lies a history of the community and its people itself. McCaslin provides a complete history of Sutherland Springs from early settlement through Civil War and into the twentieth century, its agricultural and oil-drilling exploits alongside its mineral water appeal, as well as a complete community history of the various settlers and owners of the springs/hotel. The contents include: Setting a pattern -- Losing a generation -- Another start uphill -- Building new Sutherland Springs -- Century of decline -- Endnotes.
Date:
February 2017
Creator:
McCaslin, Richard B.
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The UNT Digital Library
All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music
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Historical account of musicians in Texas, grouped by region, describing "underappreciated" artists as well as some famous artists. Each chapter provides anecdotes and biographical information about an artist or musical group. Index starts on page 299.
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Corcoran, Michael
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The UNT Digital Library
Single Star of the West: The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845
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Does Texas’s experience as a republic make it unique among the other states? In many ways, Texas was an “accidental republic” for nearly ten years, until Texans voted overwhelmingly in favor of annexation to the United States after winning independence from Mexico. Single Star of the West begins with the Texas Revolution and examines the emergence of a Texas identity. Next, several contributors discuss how the Republic was defended by its army, navy, and the Texas Rangers. Individual chapters focus on the early founders of Texas—Sam Houston, Mirabeau B. Lamar, and Anson Jones. Texas’s efforts at diplomacy, and persistence and transformation in its economy, also receive careful analysis. Finally, social and cultural aspects of the Texas Republic receive coverage, with discussions of women, American Indians, African Americans, Tejanos, and religion.
Date:
March 2017
Creator:
Howell, Kenneth Wayne & Swanlund, Charles
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The UNT Digital Library
Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival, 1978-1985
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Even though the potential passage of the Equal Rights Amendment had cracked glass ceilings across the country, in 1978 jazz remained a boys’ club. Two Kansas City women, Carol Comer and Dianne Gregg, challenged that inequitable standard. With the support of jazz luminaries Marian McPartland and Leonard Feather, inaugural performances by Betty Carter, Mary Lou Williams, an unprecedented All-Star band of women, Toshiko Akiyoshi’s band, plus dozens of Kansas City musicians and volunteers, a casual conversation between two friends evolved into the annual Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival (WJF). But with success came controversy. Anxious to satisfy fans of all jazz styles, WJF alienated some purists. The inclusion of male sidemen brought on protests. The egos of established, seasoned players unexpectedly clashed with those of newcomers. Undaunted, Comer, Gregg, and WJF’s ensemble of supporters continued the cause for eight years. They fought for equality not with speeches but with swing, without protest signs but with bebop. For the first book about this groundbreaking festival, Carolyn Glenn Brewer interviewed dozens of people and dove deeply into the archives. This book is an important testament to the ability of two friends to emphatically prove jazz genderless, thereby changing the course of jazz …
Date:
March 2017
Creator:
Brewer, Carolyn Glenn
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The UNT Digital Library