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The TCEQ Border Initiative
This document discusses The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Border Initiative, which strives to increase cooperation and the exchange of knowledge, experience, and technology related to the environment as well as promote the TCEQ's mission of protection of Texas' human and natural resources, consistent with sustainable economic development. (p. 1).
Date:
October 2012
Creator:
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The TCEQ Border Initiative
This document provides information on Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) individual projects and their works with local, state, and federal stakeholders to maximize efforts to improve the environment of the U.S.-Mexico border region.
Date:
October 2011
Creator:
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The TCEQ Border Initiative
This document provides information about the "Texas Commission on Environmental Quality [TCEQ] cooperative effort to serve border residents. The TCEQ has individual projects and also works with local, state, and federal stakeholders to maximize efforts to improve the environment of the U.S.-Mexico border region." (p. 1).
Date:
May 2011
Creator:
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type:
Pamphlet
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ernst Hermann Altgelt: Founder of Comfort, Texas
Book about Ernst Hermann Altgelt, the founder of Comfort, Texas. It includes information about Altgelt and his family, and information about the establishment of the city.
Date:
2010
Creator:
Stewart, Anne & Stewart, Mike
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
La Iniciativa Fronteriza de la TCEQ
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) works with local, state, and federal stakeholders to increase cooperation and exchange knowledge, experience, and technology related to the environment. The TCEQ mission is to maximize the efforts to improve the environment of the U.S. Mexico border region.
Date:
February 2012
Creator:
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
50 Years of Friendship & Memories: A Look Back at the Austin-Saltillo Sister Cities Association, 1968-2018
Booklet discussing the history of the sister-city relationship between Austin, Texas and Saltillo, Mexico from 1968 to 2018. There are several photos from sister-city events.
Date:
2018
Creator:
Austin-Saltillo Sister Cities Association
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
How the Changarrito Came to Mexic-Arte Museum
Picture book discussing the development of Maximo Gonzalez's idea, "Changarrito" as an informal exhibition and sale for local artists and how the Mexic-Arte Museum's Changarrito program started.
Date:
2015
Creator:
Orozco, Sylvia; Aparicio-Gamundo, Claudio & Shaffer, Caity
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Diego Echevarria, October 14, 2015
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Interview with Diego Echevarria, an Mexican-American immigrant from Mexico City. Echevarria discusses his childhood, life in Mexico City, living in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, moving to Texas City, experiences in school, moving to Irving, Texas, ESL, reflections on Mexico City, the visa process, the DREAM Act, employment, and immigration rhetoric in America.
Date:
October 14, 2015
Creator:
Nichols, Cynthia & Echevarria, Diego
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Oral History Interview with Richard Clay McBride, April 3, 2012
Interview with Richard Clay McBryde, a rancher from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. McBryde discusses his life as a rancher, his rodeo career, his education, and his short-lived football career. The interview transcript includes photos of Richard Clay McBryde, his rodeo years, and his family, on pages 16-21.
Date:
April 3, 2012
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis & McBryde, Richard Clay
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pierina E. Mercado Beckman, April 19, 2011
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Interview with University of North Texas Professor Dr. Pierina E. Mercado Beckman, Mexican-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Beckman's personal experiences about childhood in Mexico City, relocating to the U.S., her decision to attend Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, her culture shock and homesickness, marriage to Curt Beckman, the decision to earn a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Iowa, being hired at UNT, and her efforts to remain in touch with family members in Mexico.
Date:
April 19, 2011
Creator:
Clower, John & Beckman, Pierina E. Mercado
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Miguel Soria, October 2, 2012
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Interview with Miguel Soria, Mexican-born immigrant to Plano, Texas. The interview includes Soria's personal experiences about childhood in Mexico, his first visit to the U.S., illegally crossing the border to live in Dallas, Texas, and experiences with a human smuggler, along with his experiences as an undocumented person and with discrimination. It also includes his thoughts on the DREAM act and the immigration process, and advice for future immigrants.
Date:
October 2, 2012
Creator:
Duque, Samantha & Soria, Miguel
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jovita Soria, November 10, 2012
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Interview with Jovita Soria, Mexican-born immigrant to Plano, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. The interview includes Soria's personal experiences of childhood in Mexico, her first experience in Plano at the age of seventeen and her second on as a live-in nanny, her move to Abilene, Texas, and return to Mexico with her husband. Soria also talks about her return to Plano as an illegal immigrant, difficulties with illegal status, assimilation into Texas culture, children's experiences as Mexican-American, and her thoughts on the immigration process.
Date:
November 10, 2012
Creator:
Hedrick, Amy & Soria, Jovita
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Summary: Oral History of Nora Lopez, Metro Editor at the San Antonio Express News
This article is a short biography of Nora Lopez describing her background and her career working on newspapers, starting in high school.
Date:
March 2019
Creator:
Aguilar, Rebecca
Object Type:
Article
System:
The Portal to Texas History
From Santa Anna to Selena: Notable Mexicanos and Tejanos in Texas History since 1821
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Author Harriett Denise Joseph relates biographies of eleven notable Mexicanos and Tejanos, beginning with Santa Anna and the impact his actions had on Texas. She discusses the myriad contributions of Erasmo and Juan Seguín to Texas history, as well as the factors that led a hero of the Texas Revolution (Juan) to be viewed later as a traitor by his fellow Texans. Admired by many but despised by others, folk hero Juan Nepomuceno Cortina is one of the most controversial figures in the history of nineteenth-century South Texas. Preservationist and historian Adina De Zavala fought to save part of the Alamo site and other significant structures. Labor activist Emma Tenayuca’s youth, passion, courage, and sacrifice merit attention for her efforts to help the working class. Joseph reveals the individual and collective accomplishments of a powerhouse couple, bilingual educator Edmundo Mireles and folklorist-author Jovita González. She recognizes the military and personal battles of Medal of Honor recipient Raul “Roy” Benavidez. Irma Rangel, the first Latina to serve in the Texas House of Representatives, is known for the many “firsts” she achieved during her lifetime. Finally, we read about Selena’s life and career, as well as her tragic death and her continuing …
Date:
March 2018
Creator:
Joseph, Harriett Denise
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Coyote Wisdom
This volume contains popular folklore of Mexico and Texas, including animal folk stories, Navajo creation myths, discussions about folk characters, discussions about the philosophy of folklore, and other miscellaneous folk stories. The index begins on page 293.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Texas Folklore Society
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Corners of Texas
This volume contains popular folklore of Texas, including information about folk music, folk arts and crafts, history of Texas, prominent Texas writers, and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 285.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Happy Hunting Ground
Collection of popular folklore from Central and South America, including Mexican ballads, primitive art, cowboy dances, reptile myths, superstitions, Indian pictographs, and other folktales. The index begins on page 127.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Texas Folklore Society & Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Legendary Ladies of Texas
Collection of historical anecdotes providing "a study of Texas women and the conflicting images and myths that have grown up about them" (back cover). The index begins on page 225.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Golden Log
Volume of popular Texas folklore, including information about unusual Texas place names, folktales about spiders, folktales about witchcraft, ghosts and superstitions, and information about early petroleum geologists. The index begins on page 167.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Texas Folklore Society
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hecho en Tejas: Texas-Mexican Folk Arts and Crafts
Book about Texas and Mexican folk arts and crafts, including paper crafts, quilting, weaving, sculpture, yard art, saddle-making, and other folk crafts. The index begins on page 349.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Texas Folklore Society
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Bounty of Texas
This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains a miscellany of Texas, Mexican and Spanish folklore, including information about hunting, canning, cooking, and other folklore. The index begins on page 225.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library