Wastebook 2012 (open access)

Wastebook 2012

Senator Tom Coburn released his Wastebook 2012, a report outlining wasteful federal policies that cost taxpayers more than $19 billion dollars a year.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Coburn, Tom
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deep Water: the Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (open access)

Deep Water: the Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling

On May 22, 2010, President Barack Obama announced the creation of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: an independent,nonpartisan entity, directed to provide a thorough analysis and impartial judgment. The President charged the Commission to determine the causes of the disaster, and to improve the country’s ability to respond to spills, and to recommend reforms to make offshore energy production safer. This report is the result of an intense six-month effort to fulfill the President’s charge. The Commission’s report offers the President, policymakers, industry, and the American people the fullest account available of the largest oil spill in U.S history: the context for the well itself, how the explosion and spill happened, and how industry and government scrambled to respond to an unprecedented emergency.
Date: January 2011
Creator: National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (U.S.)
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Common Sense Government: Works Better and Costs Less (open access)

Common Sense Government: Works Better and Costs Less

The National Performance Review is about change---historic change---in the way the government works. As the title makes clear, the National Performance Review is about moving from red tape to results to create a government that works better and costs less. This third report of the National Performance Review describes the impact of reinvention on the American people and their government and presents more than 300 new recommendations. The National Performance Review focused primarily on how government should work, not on what it should do. On September 7, 1995, Vice President Al Gore and the National Performance Review released their third report, two years after the first report, From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less.
Date: 1995
Creator: Gore, Albert
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

U. S. F. S. "Brooklyn"

Drawing of U. S. F. S. Brooklyn in profile that shows damaged sustained during battle with Spanish vessels on July 3, 1898. Damage is marked in red.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

U. S. S. Iowa.

Drawing of U. S. S. Iowa in profile that shows damaged sustained during battle with Spanish vessels on July 3, 1898. Damage is marked in red.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Cable Cutting Mission Off of Cienfuegos Harbor]

Map of the United States naval vessels Nashville and Marblehead in Cienfuegos Harbor, Cuba, for the purpose of cutting telegraph cables. Map shows ship positions, positions of cables, rifle emplacements, roads, and some landscape.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chart Showing Daily Positions of Fleet in Campaign Against Spanish Squadron under Admiral Cervera

Map of Cuba and the surrounding islands that shows the daily positions of the naval fleets of the Spanish-American War. The path of the North Atlantic Fleet is shown in red, the U.S. Flying Squadron in blue, and the Spanish Squadron in green.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Daily Positions of the Spanish Squadron Under Admiral Cervera

Map of the path taken by Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete from Spain to Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Days and the distance traveled each day are noted along Cervera's line of travel. The map features several countries, cities, and a list of cruisers and destroyers in the squadron.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Battle Off Santiago de Cuba, July 3. 1898.

Map of the battle off of the coast of Santiago. The paths of the naval vessels are shown along lines that display their positions in at 9:37 a.m. and 11:35 p.m. on July 3, 1898. Spanish vessels are denoted in red, while American vessels are black.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

[United States Naval Operations Along the South of Cuba]

Map of the naval positions along the southern coast of Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Rivers, cities and ship paths are shown.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Plan Showing Approximate Location of Hits and Probable Size of Projectiles

Drawings of the Spanish naval vessels "Viscaya," "Oquendo," "Infanta Maria Teresa," and "Cristobal Colon." They are drawn in profile with probable damage indicated in labeled dots.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
Object Type: Image
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chart Showing Positions of the Ships of Admiral Cervera's Squadron and Those of the United States Fleet in the Battle of July 3rd, 1898, Off Santiago de Cuba

Map of coastal Cuba and the positions of vessels engaged in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Cities, rivers, islands, and some shaded depths are shown. United States ships are indicated in red while Spanish ship positions are noted in green.
Date: 1898
Creator: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age (open access)

Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age

The conference report to the 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act mandated that the National Academy of Public Administration (the Academy) conduct a broad operational review of GPO to (1) update past studies of GPO operations; (2) examine the feasibility of GPO continuing to perform executive branch printing; and (3) identify additional cost saving operational alternatives beyond those that GPO has already implemented.The Academy formed a five-member Panel of Fellows to conduct a ten-month study of the agency’s current role, its operations, and its future direction. The Panel determined that the federal government in the digital age must continue to ensure that the public has permanent access to authentic government information and that GPO has a critical role to play in meeting this need. GPO leaders have made significant progress in “rebooting” the agency from a print-centric to a content-centric focus, but the agency needs to make further business and operational changes. The Panel issued fifteen recommendations intended to position the federal government for the digital age, strengthen GPO’s business model, and further GPO’s continuing transformation. Among other things, the Panel recommended that Congress establish an inter-agency process to develop a government-wide strategy for managing the life-cycle of digital government information; GPO …
Date: January 2013
Creator: National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survey of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, Volume 2 (open access)

Survey of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, Volume 2

Second volume of the results of a survey undertaken by the U.S. Office of Education to determine their achievements, objectives, and functions. This bulletin provides the data and information collected by the Office during the survey and suggestions about possible improvements or changes. This volume is divided into ten parts: Part I. Arts and sciences; Part II. Commerce and business; Part III. Teacher training; Part IV. Military education; Part V. Professional veterinary medicine; Part VI. Summer session; Part VII. Extension services; Part VIII. Research; Part IX. Graduate work; Part X. Negro land-grant colleges. Index starts on page 915.
Date: 1930
Creator: United States. Office of Education.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survey of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, Volume 1 (open access)

Survey of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, Volume 1

First volume of the results of a survey undertaken by the U.S. Office of Education to determine their achievements, objectives, and functions. This bulletin provides the data and information collected by the Office during the survey and suggestions about possible improvements or changes. This volume is divided into eleven parts: Part I. Historical introduction; Part II. Control and administrative organization; Part III. Business management and finance; Part IV. Work of the registrar; Part V. Alumni and former students; Part VI. Student relations and welfare; Part VII. Staff; Part VIII. The library; Part IX. Agriculture; Part X. Engineering; Part XI. Home economics. Index starts on page 991.
Date: 1930
Creator: United States. Office of Education.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sunset Advisory Commission: Summary of Sunset Legislation 82nd Legislature (open access)

Sunset Advisory Commission: Summary of Sunset Legislation 82nd Legislature

This document reports the Sunset Advisory Commission's evaluation of 29 Texas state government agencies and their recommendations for legislation to strengthen or abolish those entities.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Sunset Advisory Commission.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Journey to Inspire, Innovate, and Discover (open access)

A Journey to Inspire, Innovate, and Discover

On January 14, 2004, President George W. Bush announced a new vision for America’s civil space program that calls for human and robotic missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. This vision set forth goals of: returning the Space Shuttle safely to flight; completing the International Space Station (ISS); phasing out the Space Shuttle when the ISS is complete (about 2010); sending a robotic orbiter and lander to the Moon; sending a human expedition to the Moon as early as 2015, but no later than 2020; conducting robotic missions to Mars in preparation for a future human expedition; and conducting robotic exploration across the solar system. Such a focus for the American space program has not existed since the Apollo era and establishes a much-needed direction and purpose for our national space efforts. The Commission sought extensive input for their deliberations, from within the U.S. government and directly from the public in the United States and abroad. The Commission held five televised public hearings, meeting in: Washington, D.C.; Dayton, Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia; San Francisco, California; and New York City. The Commission heard public testimony from 96 individuals representing academia, industry, media, teachers, students, entrepreneurs, astronauts, labor unions, state governments, federal …
Date: June 2014
Creator: United States. President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Congressional Serial Set: Assigned Serial Numbers Not Used (open access)

U.S. Congressional Serial Set: Assigned Serial Numbers Not Used

This document provide compiled list of U.S. Congressional Serial Set that were assigned serial numbers but not used. The list compiled to account for missing numbers from the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. Much of the information was extracted from old hand-written records and notations in copies of the Indexes to Reports and Documents and the Numerical Lists and Schedules of Volumes of the various Congresses maintained by the U.S. Government Printing office.
Date: November 30, 1998
Creator: Saunders, Virginia & Imholtz, August
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Aerial Photograph of Denton County, DFW 03-19-960]

Aerial photograph of a portion of Denton County, Texas showing roads, geography, and neighborhoods.
Date: January 10, 1990
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial Photograph of Denton County, DFW 03-19-962]

Aerial photograph of a portion of Denton County, Texas showing roads, geography, and neighborhoods.
Date: January 10, 1990
Creator: Denton County (Tex.)
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial Photograph of Denton County, DJR-2FF-252]

Aerial photograph of a portion of Denton County, Texas showing roads, geography, and neighborhoods.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial Photograph of Denton County, DJR-2FF-218]

Aerial photograph of a portion of Denton County, Texas showing roads, geography, and neighborhoods.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Aerial Photograph of Denton County, DJR-2FF-250]

Aerial photograph of a portion of Denton County, Texas showing roads, geography, and neighborhoods.
Date: December 1, 1964
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Atlanta Campaign Staff Ride Briefing Book (open access)

Atlanta Campaign Staff Ride Briefing Book

United States Army Reserve Command (USARC) Staff Ride Briefing Books are produced by the Office of the Command Historian (OCH) to provide a systematic approach to the analysis of significant campaigns and battle in the history of the military art and the profession of arms. The contents of this specific series (OCH Pub 1-2) include: Campaign overview -- Dalton (8-9 May) -- Resaca (13-15 May) -- Resaca to Cassville (16-18 May) -- Cassville (18-19 May) -- Cassville to Dallas (20-25 May) -- New Hope Church (25 May) -- Pickett's Mill (27 May) -- Dallas (28 May) -- Acworth, Big Shanty (1-10 June) -- Pine Mountain (10-14 June) -- Gilgal Church, Lost Mountain (11-16 June) -- Mud Creek Line (17-18 June) -- Kennesaw Mountain (19 June [to] 2 July) -- Kolb Farm (22 June) -- Pigeon Hill (27 June) -- Cheatham Hill (27 June) -- Approach to the Chattahoochee (2-20 July) -- Peachtree Creek (20 July) -- Atlanta (22 July) -- Ezra Church (28 July) -- Jonesboro (31 Aug [to] 1 Sept) -- The armies -- The Civil War staff -- Logistics -- Engineers -- Weapons -- Tactics -- Communications -- Medical -- The leaders -- Medal of Honor recipients.
Date: June 1995
Creator: Shanahan, Edward P.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library