University Of North Texas Press: 174 books
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Photographs from Four Generations of a Texas Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Byrd Williams Collection at the University of North Texas contains more than 10,000 prints and 300,000 negatives, accumulated by four generations of Texas photographers, all named Byrd Moore Williams. Beginning in the 1880s in Gainesville, the four Byrds photographed customers in their studios,...
by Rick Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
In 1874, the Texas legislature created the Frontier Battalion, the first formal, budgeted organization as an arm of state government of what historically had been periodic groups loosely referred to as Texas Rangers. Initially created to combat the menace of repeated raids of Indians from the north and...
Riding for the Lone Star
Frontier Cavalry and the Texas Way of War, 1822-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The idea of Texas was forged in the crucible of frontier warfare between 1822 and 1865, when Anglo-Americans adapted to mounted combat north of the Rio Grande. This cavalry-centric arena, which had long been the domain of Plains Indians and the Spanish Empire, compelled an adaptive martial tradition...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Most writers and readers of history have at one time or another wished that they could have been at some particular defining event in history. Whether it was a moment of a great decision, a major turning point that changed everything, or simply an intriguing occurrence, many scholars and others have...
Higher Education in Texas
Its Beginnings to 1970
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Higher Education in Texas is the first book to tell the history, defining events, and critical participants in the development of higher education in Texas from approximately 1838 to 1970. Charles Matthews, Chancellor Emeritus of the Texas State University System, begins the story with the land grant...
Raza Rising
Chicanos in North Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Based on articles written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, author Richard J. Gonzales draws on his educational, inner-city and professional life experiences to weave eyewitness testimony into issues facing Chicanos, including economic, health, education, criminal justice, politics, immigration, and...
Texan Identities
Moving beyond Myth, Memory, and Fallacy in Texas History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Texan Identities rests on the assumption that Texas has distinctive identities that define “what it means to be Texan,” and that these identities flow from myth and memory. Each contributor to this volume provides in some fashion an answer to the following questions: What does it mean to be Texan?...
Shoot the Conductor
Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Anshel Brusilow was born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia by musical Russian Jewish parents in a neighborhood where practicing your instrument was as normal as hanging out the laundry. By the time he was sixteen he was appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also met Pierre Monteux...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2014 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplary narrative...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2016 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, an event hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. First place winner: Terrence McCoy, “It...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2016 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, an event hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. First place winner: Stephanie McCrummen, “An...
Women in Civil War Texas
Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Women in Civil War Texas is the first book dedicated to the unique experiences of Texas women during the Civil War. It fills the literary void in Texas women’s history during this time, connects Texas women’s lives to southern women’s history, and shares the diversity of experiences of women in...
Constables, Marshals, and More
Forgotten Offices in Texas Law Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Most students of criminal justice, and the general public as well, think of policing along the three basic types of municipal, sheriff, and state police. Little is known about other avenues of police work, such as the constable. In policing textbooks, when a position such as constable is mentioned, only...