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George I. Sanchez: Don Quixote of the Southwest

Description: This historical study examines the career of George I. Sanchez, New Mexican educator, who led many political and educational battles in New Mexico and Texas to improve educational opportunities for Spanish-speaking children. Archival materials from the State Records' Center of New Mexico, the papers of Senator Bronson M. Cutting, the Rockefeller Foundation Archives, the papers of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Sanchez's private papers, unpublished materials at the University of Texas in Austi… more
Date: December 1976
Creator: Leff, Gladys R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Implementation and Administration of Radical Education in Texas: Politics or Reform in Education from 1870-1873

Description: This study examines the efforts of Radicals (Republicans) to establish a state-wide public school system in Texas between 1870 and 1873. Primary sources cover the chronological fringes of the period being examined. This study follows a chronological narrative with the four chapters examining first, educational trends in the southern states and Texas prior to Reconstruction, followed by examination of the Radical system in Texas, and, finally, its destruction by Conservative Texans. The final ch… more
Date: August 1976
Creator: McClellan, Michael E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Program of Mexican Literature for Graduate University Students

Description: The problem of this study is that of developing a program of study of Mexican literature at the graduate level at North Texas State University. The study of literature and culture is approached by probing into the influences on the thinking of the Mexican and by using an in-depth study, rather than an "anthology" approach to teaching. The findings of the study indicate a need for an upper level course in Mexican literature at North Texas State University. Therefore, the following recommendation… more
Date: December 1976
Creator: Morgan, Linda M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Reforming the Church of England, 1895-1919

Description: This study deals with the events after 1895 which led to a major reshaping of the Church of England's policy and organization in 1919. Those events, which included debates in Parliament, a Royal Commission, Prayer Book revision, special Church committees, and Private negotiations by Church leaders, finally resulted in the British Parliament passing the Enabling act of 1919. Significant persons and powerful influences were at work during these years to prevent, as well as promote change in the … more
Date: May 1976
Creator: Zimmerman, John D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Music as idea and image in English Romantic poetry

Description: This study is an investigation of the relationships between music and the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Particularly it focuses on the nature of their musical subject matter and musical imagery in order to determine the extent to which they were influenced by aesthetic and philosophical musical theory, generally termed speculative music.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Coffman, Sue E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Annual Meeting of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1976

Description: Program for the 80th annual meeting of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, held from March 19 through the 20, 1976 in the North Park Inn, in Dallas, Texas, including a list of sessions for the meeting and related information about the organization and conference. The meeting was called to order by President Colonel Joe M. Hill, Jr., in Room C-2 of the North Park Inn.
Date: March 1976
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Church and State in Mexico from Calles to Cárdenas, 1924-1938

Description: This dissertation presents an overview of Church- State relations in Mexico from 1924 to 1938. It examines the actions and motives of prominent national leaders, the papacy, the episcopate, and the Mexican citizenry to determine justification and culpability. This dissertation presents several conclusions. When Calles enforced the anticlerical provisions of the Constitution of 1917, the clergy withdrew from the churches in protest. The episcopate as a body bore a moral responsibility for the Cr… more
Date: May 1976
Creator: Joseph, Harriett Denise
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Indian Patriots: A Study Through Portraiture

Description: In the fall of 1972 I was required to read Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" as an "atmosphere setter" for a seminar on artists of the westward expansion in the United States. When I first started making drawings of some of the Indian leaders, I had no idea of doing a series. I also had no idea that Indians and more especially those of the West, would be consuming so much of my time and thoughts for such a long period. In the beginning the drawings were prompted by a fascination with … more
Date: May 1976
Creator: Cundall, Edwinia Tillinghast
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[Presidential Libraries and French Canadian History]

Description: Sound recording of Bernard Ostry giving a speech titled "Presidential Libraries" and a speech titled "French Canadian History" given by an unknown speaker during an Oral History Association event.
Date: 1976?
Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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French-Canadian History

Description: Sound recording of two speeches titled "French-Canadian History" and "A Journalist Looks at Oral History" given during an Oral History Association event.
Date: 1976?
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Dialog with Funding Institutions

Description: Sound recording of two talks titled "A Dialog with funding institutions" and "Presidential Libraries: Bicentennial Perspectives" given during an unknown Oral History Association event.
Date: 1976?
Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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