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Erroneous Predictions and Negative Comments Concerning Exploration, Territorial Expansion, Scientific and Technological Development; Selected Statements

Description: This report documents articles that opposed events, buildings, or inventions that are now historically or modernly important, such as the Louisiana Purchase or the invention of the airplane.
Date: May 29, 1969
Creator: Gamarra, Nancy T.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Official Site of America's 400th Anniversary

Description: This website is for the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the settling of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Jamestown 2007, an agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia, worked with local, state and national groups to stage the commemoration of America’s 400th Anniversary. The commemoration began in May 2006 and continued through 2007 with a series of national and international signature events commemorating aspects of the Jamestown story. Some of the events included were the 2006 Godspeed Sai… more
Date: 2007
Creator: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Celebration 2007 Steering Committee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Website
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit

[Pages of a stamp collection]

Description: Photograph of two pages of a stamp collection. They are laying on a piece of light colored fabric with a cross-hatched pattern. The area around the square piece of fabric is completely dark. The top page has eighteen commemorative stamps on it that represent U.S. historic sites and some famous U.S. citizens. The bottom page has fifteen stamps on it that all people's faces, mostly those of presidents, on them.
Date: March 12, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pages of commemorative stamps]

Description: Photograph of two pages of commemorative stamps. The top page mainly includes stamps from historic locations in the United States, including the Statue of Liberty and Fort Ticonderoga, and there are also some stamps for wildlife conservation. The bottom page mostly includes stamps with people's portraits, namely portraits of presidents.
Date: January 19, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A Changing Natural Rate of Unemployment: Policy Issues

Description: This report discusses problems in estimating the natural rate of unemployment. The contents include the natural rate concept, potential causes of a falling natural rate in the 1990s, alternative theories, and measuring the natural rate in practice.
Date: July 10, 2006
Creator: Labonte, Marc
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SALT II: A Chronology

Description: This report lists the events of the second strategic arms limitation agreement (SALT II) in chronological order.
Date: August 23, 1978
Creator: Sterste-Perkins, Dagnija
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Daylight Saving Time

Description: This report details the information related to daylight saving time. The content includes its history, changing an area's time zone, moving an area on or off DST
Date: March 7, 2007
Creator: Gurevitz, Mark
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Let the Dogs Bark: The Psychological War in Vietnam, 1960-1968

Description: Between 1960 and 1968 the United States conducted intensive psychological operations (PSYOP) in Vietnam. To date, no comprehensive study of the psychological war there has been conducted. This dissertation fills that void, describing the development of American PSYOP forces and their employment in Vietnam. By looking at the complex interplay of American, North Vietnamese, National Liberation Front (NLF) and South Vietnamese propaganda programs, a deeper understanding of these activities and the… more
Date: May 2016
Creator: Roberts, Mervyn Edwin, III
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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The 1776 Report

Description: A report authored by historians, academics, and politicians to chronicle the American founding, the effect of the meaning of the Declaration of Independence on the U.S. history, the principles in the Constitution, and challenges to those principles, as well as suggestions for national renewal.
Date: January 2021
Creator: United States. President's Advisory 1776 Commission.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Woman's Place is at Work: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor in Five Texas Cities, 1900-1940

Description: This thesis is a quantitative analysis of women working for pay aged sixteen and older in five mid-size Texas cities from 1900 to 1940. It examines wage-earning women primarily in terms of race, age, marital status, and occupation at each census year and how those key factors changed over time. This study investigates what, if any, trends occurred in the types of occupations open to women and the roles of race, age, and marital status in women working for pay in the first forty years of the 20t… more
Date: August 2017
Creator: Scott, Codee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Bread, Bullets, and Brotherhood: Masculine Ideologies in the Mid-Century Black Freedom Struggle, 1950-1975

Description: This thesis examines the ways that African Americans in the mid-twentieth century thought about and practiced masculinity. Important contemporary events such as the struggle for civil rights and the Vietnam War influenced the ways that black Americans sought not only to construct masculine identities, but to use these identities to achieve a higher social purpose. The thesis argues that while mainstream American society had specific prescriptions for how men should behave, black Americans were … more
Date: August 2018
Creator: Harvey, Matt
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Portrait of an Age: The Political Career of Stephen W. Dorsey, 1868-1889

Description: This study traces the public life of Stephen Dorsey chronologically from his service in the Civil War to the end of his political career, which came with his failure to have a friend appointed governor of New Mexico Territory in 1889. Traditional interpretations of Dorsey are based on a combination of scant evidence, carpetbagger stereotypes, and the assumption that he was guilty of masterminding the monumental swindle of the Star Route Frauds. Closer examination of Dorsey's public life, howeve… more
Date: May 1980
Creator: Lowry, Sharon K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Military Tribunals: Historical Patterns and Lessons

Description: This report summarizes the types of military tribunals that have functioned from the Revolutionary War to the present time, explaining the legislative enactments that have guided these tribunals and the judicial decisions that have reviewed their constitutionality.
Date: July 9, 2004
Creator: Fisher, Louis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ready to Run: Fort Worth's Mexicans in Search of Representation, 1960-2000

Description: This dissertation analyzes Fort Worth's Mexican community from 1960 to 2000 while considering the idea of citizenship through representation in education and politics. After establishing an introductory chapter that places the research in context with traditional Chicano scholarship while utilizing prominent ideas and theories that exist within Modern Imperial studies, the ensuing chapter looks into the rise of Fort Worth's Mexican population over the last four decades of the twentieth century.… more
Date: August 2017
Creator: Martínez, Peter Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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