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Oral History Interview with Laurence Kruckman, January 10, 2023

Description: Interview with Laurence Kruckman, an anthropologist who specializes in mental health and epidemiology from South Venice, Florida. Kruckman discusses education, learning about postpartum illness and starting self-help groups with friends, spreading awareness, the DSM, Dar a Luz, becoming involved in leadership at PSI, and evolution of the support system in the U.S. for new mothers over time.
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Date: January 10, 2023
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Kruckman, Laurence
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Divided-Tenure, Divided Recovery: How Policy and Land Tenure Shape Disaster Recovery for Mobile Homeowners

Description: People who live in mobile homes have heightened vulnerability to disasters, due in part to mobile homes increasingly occupying high-hazard risk lands and the precarious ownership status known as divided-tenure. Divided-tenure is when an individual owns a mobile home and rents the land underneath. To identify the challenges associated with divided-tenure and disaster recovery from a policy perspective, this study analyzed the content of key HUD policies and performed a comparative policy analys… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Warren, Robyn (Robyn C.)
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Oral History Interview with Benjamin B. Luong, March 15, 2021

Description: Interview with Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm Lương, a chef from Dallas, Texas who studied at the Culinary Institute of America. Benjamin discusses the background of his Vietnamese parents, the Vietnam War, politics, his father's education in the United States, and his own personal journey to becoming a chef.
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Date: March 15, 2021
Creator: Bridges-Jacobsen, Lauren & Luong, Benjamin Bình-Thiên Phạm
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Manatee County Public Library System: Palmetto Branch Library staff painting face masks]

Description: Photograph of five library staff workers standing and sitting around a large semi-circular table painting face masks. All five staff members are wearing face masks and are standing a couple of feet apart. The table has a white plastic tablecloth set on top. The table contains large plastic freezer bags, small bottles with paint, a box of gloves, and the face masks being painted. The area where the staff are in looks is a large carpeted room with a sink, countertop, and shelves visible in the b… more
Date: September 2020
Creator: Robinson, Megan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 27.515998 -82.575307
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Manatee County Public Library System: Palmetto Branch Library welcome back sign]

Description: Photograph of a small whiteboard sign with handwritten text in a variety of colored marker, "It's been quiet without you...Too quiet, even for a library! Welcome back!" Two hand-drawn thought bubbles on either side contain the text, ""Shhh! This is a library!"" and ""We missed you!""
Date: June 9, 2020
Creator: Robinson, Megan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 27.515998 -82.575307
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["I Got My Covid-19 vaccine" round button pin]

Description: Photograph of a brown colored cloth bag with a leather decal with the Gootium logo, a type of messenger-style bag. The yellow round metal button pin reads "I GOT MY COVID-19 VACCINE" in black lettering with the exception of "COVID-19" in light blue lettering. A red check mark is also included on the button's design under the text. A knitted rainbow flag is pinned to the brown bag above the Covid-19 vaccine button. To the left side of the bag are four metal and enamel pins attached to the brown … more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Robinson, Megan
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[Manatee County Public Library System's 805 Blog series "My Home Library" post titled "Comfort and Joy" by contributor Megan Robinson]

Description: Screenshots of a blog post written by Megan Robinson titled "Comfort and Joy" regarding some of her favorite books. Megan wrote the post as a contributing piece to the Manatee County Public Library System's 805 Blog series "My Home Library." The blog post contains images of books and DVDs on a bookshelf.
Date: April 7, 2020
Creator: Robinson, Megan
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Hurricane Dorian Twitter Dataset

Description: This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Hurricane Dorian which is the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas, and is regarded as the worst natural disaster in the country's history. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/DocNow/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 3,000,553 Tweets and 84,216 media files make up the combined dataset.
Date: 2019-08-25/2019-09-14
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
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Disasters, Smart Growth and Economic Resilience: An Empirical Analysis of Florida Cities

Description: This dissertation examines the relationship between economic resilience, disaster experience, and smart growth policies at the local government level. The study is based upon three research questions that examine spatial distribution of economic resilience in Florida cities, and examines the impact of disaster experience, and smart growth policies adopted by local governments on economic resilience. Based upon the bounce-forward approach (Cowell, 2013; Klein et al. 2003), economic resilience is… more
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Date: August 2019
Creator: Chatterjee, Vaswati
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Oral History Interview with Randy Loftis, March 27, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Randy Loftis, an environmental journalist and lecturer at UNT, discussing how he became involved with covering the environment -- starting with issues in the Everglades -- and how it has affected his perspective on journalism.
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Date: March 27, 2019
Creator: Stark, Johnnie & Loftis, Randy
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Disaster Preparedness in Escambia County Florida: The Influence of Oral Narratives

Description: This work addresses hurricane preparedness in Escambia County, Florida. It explores preparing for hurricanes as an informal learning process occurring within personal networks and embedded in beliefs, values, and attitudes. Findings reveal that participants learned to prepare from their parents in childhood and improved upon that knowledge through direct experience in adulthood. Later, they passed this knowledge on to their children as well as co-workers. These preparations are embedded in beli… more
Date: December 2018
Creator: Vanlandingham, Keith Marcel
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Economic Resilience, Disasters, and Green Jobs: An Institutional Collective Action Framework

Description: This dissertation is about economic resilience of local governments to natural disasters. Specifically, the dissertation investigates resilience on regional level. Moreover, the dissertation also investigates growth in the green job sector in local governments. The findings indicate that local governments working with each other helps green job creation. In addition, the dissertation finds that green jobs, following disasters, experience three percent growth. This dissertation is important beca… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Ismayilov, Orkhan M.
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Rainbow in the Morning

Description: Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including work songs, reptile myths, ballads and other folk songs of the South. The index begins on page 185.
Date: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
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Partner: UNT Press
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Texas and Southwestern Lore

Description: Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.
Date: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
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Partner: UNT Press
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