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Words and Pictures: Vernon Fisher, 1980-2019

Description: Words and Pictures is an exhibition and catalogue of paintings and sculptures by Texas artist Vernon Fisher, dated 1980 to 2019. Curator Tracee Robertson and critic Dave Hickey explore themes and methods in Fisher’s art. Fisher came of age in the twentieth century, characterized as the bloodiest and most brutal century in history. Like many artists of his era, including poets and writers who inspire him, Fisher explores what it means to be lost in the face of indifference. His art is a personal… more
Date: 2019
Creator: Robertson, Tracee W.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Adolphe Gouhenant: French Revolutionary, Utopian Leader, and Texas Frontier Photographer

Description: Adolphe Gouhenant tells the story of artist, revolutionary, and early North Texas resident Francois Ignace (Adolphe) Gouhenant (1804-1871). Gouhenant was selected by well-known Icarian communist Etienne Cabet to lead an advance guard from France to settle a utopian colony in North Texas. The community, beset by hardships, ultimately scapegoated Gouhenant, accused him of being a French agent, and expelled him. He then journeyed first to Fort Worth to teach the federal soldiers French and art, an… more
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Date: October 2019
Creator: Selzer, Paula & Pécontal, Emmanuel
Partner: UNT Press

A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told

Description: Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West, notable for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Some see him as a hero lawman of the Wild West, whereas others see him as yet another outlaw, a pimp, and failed lawman. Roy B. Young, Gary L. Roberts, and Casey Tefertiller, all notable experts on Earp and the Wild West, present in A Wyatt Earp Anthology an authoritative account of his life, successes, and failures. The editors… more
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Date: August 2019
Creator: Young, Roy B.; Roberts, Gary L. & Tefertiller, Casey
Partner: UNT Press

The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 6

Description: This anthology collects the eleven winners of the 2018 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: Kale Williams, “The Loneliest Polar Bear” (The Oregonian), relates the tale of Nora, a baby polar bear raised by humans in a zoo after being abandoned by her mother. Second place: Patricia Callahan, “Doomed by Delay” (Ch… more
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Date: June 2019
Creator: Reaves, Gayle
Partner: UNT Press
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2019 Web Almanac: HTTP Archive's Annual State of the Web Report

Description: The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive. The Web Almanac is a project organized by HTTP Archive. HTTP Archive was started in 2010 by Steve Souders with the mission to track how the web is built. It evaluates the composition of millions of web pages on a monthly basis and makes its terabytes of metadata available for analysis on BigQuery48.
Date: 2019
Creator: Pollard, Barry
Partner: UNT Libraries
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SPARC Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry – Implications for Academic Institutions

Description: This report was commissioned in response to the growing trend of commercial acquisition of critical infrastructure in our institutions. It is intended to provide a comprehensive look at the current players in this arena, their strategies and potential actions, and the implications of these on the operations of our libraries and home institutions. It also outlines suggestions for an initial set of strategic responses for the community to evaluate in order to ensure it controls both this infrastr… more
Date: March 28, 2019
Creator: Aspesi, Claudio; Allen, Nicole; Crow, Raym; Daugherty, Shawn; Joseph, Heather; McArthur, Joseph et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with Denise Bates, May 15, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Denise Bates, an architect and interior designer who works at Gensler, discussing building construction and renovation that employ sustainability and resilient design, and how those concepts and codified standards have changed over time.
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Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Bates, Denise & Stark, Johnnie
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Don E. Ferrier, March 26, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Don Ferrier, a Certified Green Builder and CEO of Ferrier Companies, discussing the founding and development of the business, particularly green building technologies and high energy efficiency for both residential homes and commercial remodeling.
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Date: March 26, 2019
Creator: Ferrier, Donald E. & Stark, Johnnie
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Stan Ingman, March 14, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with UNT professor Stan Ingman about his experiences growing up in cities that with pollution and environmental degradation, his education, and his work in the Rehabilitation and Health Services Department to develop curricula connecting the well-being of people to the health of their environments.
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Date: March 14, 2019
Creator: Stark, Johnnie & Ingman, Stanley R.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Mitzi Mills, March 7, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Mitzi Mills, a co-founder of Anzea Textiles in Fort Worth, discussing the fabric and design industry, the goals of the company, and the ways that they focused on natural and recycled fibers, as well as other sustainable practices.
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Date: March 7, 2019
Creator: Stark, Johnnie & Mills, Mitzi Tade
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Charlie Joe Cole, Jr., October 3, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with Charlie Joe Cole Jr., conducted in Denton, Texas, for the Geezle Fraternity Oral History Project that expands on a previous interview in 1985. Cole discusses his background as an athlete at North Texas State College (UNT) playing football, his distinguished Air Force service, his membership in the Geezle Fraternity, and his career in education followed by his career as Denton County's Probation Officer.
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Date: October 3, 2019
Creator: Pettit, John D., Jr. & Cole, Charlie Joe, Jr.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with C. Dan Smith, September 26, 2019

Description: Transcript of an interview with [C.] Dan Smith, UNT Athletic Hall of Fame Member, Distinguished Alumnus of UNT and Geezle Fraternity, and Board of Regents Member (Chair for two years). Smith shares concerning his childhood in Hawkins, TX, and his public education in Lewisville, TX; Insights about his athletic football career in high school, at Texas Technological College, and North Texas State College; Recollections on graduating in business administration, beginning a career in securities, and… more
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Date: September 26, 2019
Creator: Pettit, John D. & Smith, Dan
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

A Machine-Gunner in France: The Memoirs of Ward Schrantz, 35th Division, 1917-1919

Description: This is the WWI memoir of Ward Schrantz, a National Guard officer and machine gun company commander in the Kansas-Missouri 35th Division. He extensively documents his experiences and those of his men, from training at Camp Doniphan to their voyage across the Atlantic, and to their time in the trenches in France’s Vosges Mountains and ultimately to their return home. He devotes much of his memoir to the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, in which the 35th Division suffered heavy casualties and made only m… more
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Date: April 2019
Creator: Schrantz, Ward L. & Patrick, Jeffrey L.
Partner: UNT Press

Phantom in the Sky: A Marine’s Back Seat View of the Vietnam War

Description: Phantom in the Sky is the story of a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) in the back seat of the supersonic Phantom jet during the Vietnam War—a unique, tactical perspective of the “guy in back,” or GIB, absent from other published aviation accounts. During the time of Terry L. Thorsen’s service from 1966 to 1970, the RIO played an integral part in enemy aircraft interception and ordnance delivery. In Navy and Marine F-4 Phantom jets, the RIO was a second pair of eyes for the pilot, in charge of comm… more
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Date: March 2019
Creator: Thorsen, Terry L.
Partner: UNT Press
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