University Of North Texas Press: 174 books
Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools
New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Containing pieces by distinguished scholars including Darlene Harbour Unrue and Robert Brinkmeyer, this book is the first full investigation of the links between Porter's only novel and European intellectual history. Beginning with Sebastian Brant, author of the late medieval Narrenschiff, whom she acknowledges...
Queen of the Confederacy
The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2002
"Submissiveness is not my role, but certain platitudes on certain occasions are among the innocent deceits of the sex." A strong character with a fervent belief in woman's changing place, Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was not content to live the life of a typical nineteenth-century Southern belle....
Life with a Superhero
Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Over twenty years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie. She told her friends and family that her newborn child had died. That lie became the catalyst for the unfolding truth of the adoption of that same baby—Michael —who is, in fact, very much alive and now twenty-two...
American Voudou
Journey into a Hidden World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave tradeis the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah,...
by Sarah Byrn Rickman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the U.S. Army. Love was...
Contested Policy
The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960-2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Bilingual education is one of the most contentious and misunderstood educational programs in the country. It raises significant questions about this countrys national identity, the nature of federalism, power, ethnicity, and pedagogy. In Contested Policy , Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., studies the origins,...
by Mark T. Smokov
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Pinned down by a posse, the wounded outlaws companions urged him to escape through the gulch. Dont wait for me, he replied, Im all in and might as well end it right here. Placing his revolver to his right temple, he pulled the trigger for the last time, thus ending the life of the notorious Kid Curry...
Murder on the White Sands
The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
On a cold February evening in 1896, prominent attorney Col. Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry rode home across the White Sands of New Mexico. It was a trip the father and son would not completethey both disappeared in a suspected ambush and murder at the hands of cattle thieves...
D-Day in History and Memory
The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Over the past sixty-five years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a major battle. The assault itself formed a vital component of Allied victory in the Second World War. D-Day developed into a sign and symbol; as a word it...
Three Decades of Engendering History
Selected Works of Antonia I. Castaneda
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For over three decades the work of Antonia I. Castañeda has shaped the fields of Western History and Chicana Studies. From her early articles on Chicana representation and political economy, to her most recent work mapping gendered violence and gendered resistance in the history of the U.S. Southwest,...
Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams
Leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The military career of General James Monroe Williams spanned both the Civil War and the Indian Wars in the West, yet no biography has been published to date on his important accomplishments, until now. From his birth on the northern frontier, westward movement in the Great Migration, rush into the violence...
Changing the Tune
The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival, 1978-1985
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Even though the potential passage of the Equal Rights Amendment had cracked glass ceilings across the country, in 1978 jazz remained a boys’ club. Two Kansas City women, Carol Comer and Dianne Gregg, challenged that inequitable standard. With the support of jazz luminaries Marian McPartland and Leonard...
The AEF in Print
An Anthology of American Journalism in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The AEF in Print is an anthology that tells the story of U.S. involvement in World War I through newspaper and magazine articles—precisely how the American public experienced the Great War. From April 1917 to November 1918, Americans followed the war in their local newspapers and popular magazines....
A Different Face of War
Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
A Different Face of War is a riveting account of a Medical Service Corps officer’s activities during the early years of the Vietnam War. Assigned as the senior medical advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps, an area close to the DMZ, James G. Van Straten traveled extensively and...