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Women in the Foreign Service: A Case Study of Margaret Parx Hays, 1942-1964

Description: This project seeks to include the historical significance of women in the Foreign Service and subsequently the United States Department of State between 1942 and 1964. Using the life and experience of Margaret Parx Hays, one of fewer than three hundred female foreign service officers before 1960, this study explores the importance of examining women at the "ground level." This narrative examines the life of Hays at several different duty stations and her experience navigating a male-dominant wo… more
Date: December 2019
Creator: Craig, Maddison L.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Prokofiev's Eclectic Approach in his Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor

Description: Prokofiev had a specific approach to the modernist aesthetic that is worthy of a special study from a new perspective: eclecticism. There are two distinguishable views on his achievement in modern music. One is the Western version, which sees his eclectic approach as not innovative enough in comparison with modern composers such as Stravinsky. The other view is from the traditional Soviet approach, which holds Prokofiev in the highest esteem. These sources largely ignore Prokofiev's Paris and A… more
Date: May 2019
Creator: Yan, Jishuang
Partner: UNT Libraries
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"Independent Original and Progressive": Celebrating 125 Years of UNT

Description: Joshua C. Chilton first described UNT as “independent, original and progressive” in his inaugural speech opening the university in 1890. In the 125 years since then the university has more than lived up to his expectations. The University Archive holds countless photographs, artifacts and publications which tell the remarkable story of UNT from its beginnings in a downtown hardware store to its place today as the one of the nation’s largest public universities. This book features stories about … more
Date: 2016
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Serge Jaroff and His Don Cossack Choir: Two Rare Scores at the University of North Texas Music Library

Description: This narrative gives details on Serge Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir, which first began in a Turkish concentration camp in 1921. The author highlights the how the choir's music has personally affected her, while also giving details about the history of the choir and how the group went on to tour around the world. This document also gives the information that the University of North Texas Music Library maintains two rare Jaroff scores.
Date: 2015
Creator: Arnold, Donna M.
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Weeding Out the Undesirables: the Red Scare in Texas Higher Education, 1936-1958

Description: When the national Democratic Party began to transform to progressive era politics because of the New Deal, conservative reactionaries turned against the social welfare programs and used red scare tactics to discredit liberal and progressive New Deal Democrat professors in higher education. This process continued during the Second World War, when the conservatives in Texas lumped fascism and communism in order to anchor support and fire and threaten professors and administrators for advocating o… more
Date: August 2014
Creator: Bynum, Katherine E.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Portrait of a southern Progressive: The political life and times of Governor Pat M. Neff of Texas, 1871-1952

Description: Pat M. Neff was a product of his political place and time. Born in Texas in 1871, during Reconstruction, he matured and prospered while his native state did the same as it transitioned from Old South to New South. Neff spent most of his life in Waco, a town that combined New South Progressivism with religious conservatism. This duality was reflected in Neff's own personality. On moral or religious issues, he was conservative. On economic and social issues, he was Progressive. He thus was a typi… more
Date: May 2011
Creator: Stanley, Mark
Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with Eugene Fowler, Jr., Joel D. Fowler, Joe W. Specht, and Melody S. Kelly, October 11, 2008

Description: Interview with Eugene Fowler, Jr., Joel D. Fowler, Joe W. Specht, and Melody Specht Kelly. The interview includes their personal experiences about the Duke and Ayres Store and the University of North Texas Lab School. The Fowlers and the Spechts talk about childhood and education, enlisting, family histories, the Denton square, various jobs, and race issues in Denton. The interview includes an appendix with photographs and articles.
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Date: October 11, 2008
Creator: Mears, Michelle M.; Fowler, Eugene, Jr.; Fowler, Joel D.; Specht, Joe W. & Kelly, Melody Specht
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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An Analysis of the Satisfaction of the Students during the First Ten Years of the Collaborative Program between Dallas Theological Seminary and the University of North Texas

Description: This study analyzes the satisfaction of doctoral students in the joint doctoral program in Christian higher education between Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) and the University of North Texas (UNT). The study focuses on the 18 students who have been identified as advanced participants in or graduates from the joint program from its inception in 1997 through its 10-year mark in 2007. Fourteen of the 18 eligible students agreed to participate in this study for a 77.8 % response rate. The doctor… more
Date: August 2008
Creator: Kavlie, Lucas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Wyatt Cephas Hedrick: Builder of Cities

Description: Wyatt Cephas Hedrick, builder and architect, was born in Virginia in 1888 and came to Texas in 1913. At his death in 1964, Hedrick's companies had managed construction projects worth more than $1.3 billion. Hedrick's architectural business designed and built edifices of all kinds, including educational facilities, hotels, military bases, railroad terminals, courthouses, and road systems. His companies built all over the United States, and in some foreign countries, but primarily in Texas. Th… more
Date: May 2008
Creator: Liles, Deborah M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Accessibility and Authenticity in Julia Smith's Cynthia Parker

Description: In 1939, composer Julia Smith's first opera Cynthia Parker dramatized the story of a Texas legend. Smith manipulated music, text, and visual images to make the opera accessible for the audience in accordance with compositional and institutional practices in American opera of the 1930s. Transparent musical themes and common Native Americans stereotypes are used to define characters. Folk music is presented as diegetic, creating a sense of authenticity that places the audience into the opera's We… more
Date: December 2007
Creator: Buehner, Katie R.
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Students passing through Bruce Hall entrance]

Description: Photograph of students coming in and out of Bruce Hall's main entrance. They are both wearing backpacks, one is on their phone and the other is carrying a jacket. Above the entrance is a stone emblem that includes the initials "N.T.S.T.C.", which stands for the old name of the university 'North Texas State Teacher's College'.
Date: September 12, 2007
Creator: Elam, Mary
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with John Ed Balentine, July 7, 2006

Description: Interview with former North Texas State Teachers College student John Ed Balentine, longtime resident of Denton County, Texas. The interview includes Balentine's personal experiences about life on Denton farms, including descriptions of ranch work, wheat harvest, and entertainment options in Denton, education in Denton schools, dropping out of school to work for magnolia Oil Co. in Kermit, Texas, and being inducted into the U.S. Army. Additionally, Balentine speaks about his family's economic d… more
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Date: July 7, 2006
Creator: Moye, Todd & Balentine, John Ed
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Gerard Roland Vela, July 21, 2004

Description: Interview with Dr. Gerard Roland Vela, UNT Professor Emeritus of Microbiology. The interview includes Vela's personal experiences about childhood and education, serving in World War II-era U.S. Navy, having a fellowship at Harvard University, and joining the North Texas faculty in 1965. Additionally, Vela discusses his family history, his love of chemistry, genetics, and microbiology, the growing pains involved with transitioning North Texas into a research university, the construction of a res… more
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Date: July 21, 2004
Creator: Calderon, Roberto R. & Vela, Gerard Roland
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, Inc., The Women's Memorial Oral History Project

Description: Audio cassette from the NaDeane Walker Anderson collection. The oral history, by interviewer Cindy William, interviews NaDeane Walker Anderson, Women’s Army Corps (WAC) servicewoman during the second world war. NaDeane Walker Anderson was born in 1921 on a family farm near Canton, Texas. She was the second youngest child of nine to Charles H. Walker and Wincie Sides Walker. In 1942, NaDeane graduated from North Texas State Teacher’s College (NTSTC) in Denton, Texas.
Date: July 23, 2003
Duration: 55 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: William, Cindy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Solo Compositions for Trumpet of Fisher Aubrey Tull: An Analysis of Structural, Technical, and Stylistic Elements for Performance Preparation, with Three Recitals of Selected Works by Bozza, Fasch, Haydn, Tomasi, and Others

Description: The compositions of Fisher Aubrey Tull are widely performed and many have become standard repertoire. Tull's compositions encompass a multiplicity of performance media including works for orchestra, chorus, symphonic band, jazz band, brass choir, and solo and chamber works. Tull's compositional output for the trumpet is prolific and is acknowledged to be music of high quality. An examination of Trumpet and Brass Programs, compiled and published annually by the International Trumpet Guild, shows… more
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Date: August 2002
Creator: Wenger, Alan J.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with Harve D. King, May 22, 2001

Description: Interview with Harve D. King, a Army WWII veteran from Copeville, Texas, who served in the 350th Engineer Regiment. King discusses his upbringing on a cotton farm, school in Farmersville, discrimination as an African-American, attending Texas College, joining the Army, training, assignment at Camp Shelby, deployment to New Guinea, operations at Hollandia, building a hospital, recreation, visiting Australia, returning to the United States and discharge, and life after the war.
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Date: May 22, 2001
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & King, Harve D.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Robert B. Toulouse, October 3, 1995

Description: Interview with college administrator Robert B. Toulouse from Wellsville, Missouri. In the interview, Toulouse discusses his experiences during the desegregation of the North Texas State College and comments on President J. C. Matthews.
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Date: October 3, 1995
Creator: Price, Tammi & Toulouse, Robert B.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with C. M. ("Hank") Hudspeth, May 3, 1993

Description: Interview with Hank Hudspeth, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences as a cryptographer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Hudspeth discusses his assignment to COMSOPAC at Noumea in New Caledonia, the intricacies of sending and receiving various classifications of coded messages, and the ambush of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plane in 1943.
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Date: May 3, 1993
Creator: Daniels, John & Hudspeth, C. M.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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