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Presents the true account of the war-time experiences of Harry Andrew March, Jr, captured by way of diary entries addressed to his beloved wife, Elsa. Nicknamed ""Dirty Eddie"" by his comrades, he served as a member of four squadrons operating in the South Pacific, frequently under difficult and perilous conditions.

Drawing on Leonidas Warren Payne's own writing, interviews with former colleagues and students, and private letters lain undisclosed since his death, Rare Integrity reveals a portrait of a man whose great gift of creative generosity and warmth of heart enabled him to see a person as the person wished to be seen.

Makes the case that the wartime experiences of combat units such as the Tank Battalions and the Tuskegee Airmen ultimately convinced President Truman to desegregate the military, without which the progress of the Civil Rights Movement might also have been delayed.

Denton County and the City of Denton are named for preacher, lawyer, and Indian fighter John B. Denton, but little has been known about him. This biography separates the truth from the myth, which also contains a detailed discussion of the controversy surrounding his burial and offers some alternative scenarios for what happened to his body.

Presents a collection of thirty-two bite-sized chapters of the city's history. Fort Worth Stories is illustrated with 50 photographs and drawings, many of them never before published. This collection of stories will appeal to all who appreciate the Cowtown city.

Collects the ten winners of the 2020 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Christopher Goffard,'Detective Trapp' (Los Angeles Times) is about a complicated murder investigation and its human impact.

Charts the pivotal period in Houston's history when Jewish and Black leadership eventually came together to work for positive change. This is a story of two communities, both of which struggled to claim the rights and privileges they desired.

A bilingual compilation of stories by Eoin Ua Cathail, an Irish emigrant, based loosely on his experiences in the West and Midwest. The author draws on the popular American Dime Novel genre throughout to offer unique reflections on nineteenth-century American life.

The US Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons (CAPs) lived in Vietnamese villages, with the mission of defending the villages. Ted Easterling examines how well the CAPs performed as a counterinsurgency method, how the Marines adjusted to life in the Vietnamese villages, and how they worked to accomplish their mission.

The work of female journalists focuses more squarely on individuals caught in the conflict - including themselves. It offers a valuable counterpoint to the male, horror-of-the-trenches experience and demonstrates how World War I served as a catalyst that enabled women to expand the public forum for their opinions on social and moral issues.

This collection's title - as in tether, strike, eyelash, welt - is a nod to the fluidity of language and the foolish penchant we have for naming things, including ourselves. The poems refuse to navigate, choosing instead to face head-on the snares of gender, patriarchy, and parenting.

A collection of columns from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. The editorial columns included tell stories, and tell about telling stories. They also reflect boyhood dreams... and foolishness, fears, beliefs, customs, traditions, and sometimes things that are no longer part of our culture but we wish were.

The Stafford-Townsend feud began with an 1871 shootout in Columbus, Texas, followed by the deaths of the Stafford brothers in 1890. The second phase blossomed after 1898 with the assassination of Larkin Hope, and concluded in 1911 with the violent deaths of Marion Hope, Jim Townsend, and Will Clements, all in the space of one month.

The nine stories in Mike Alberti's debut collection shine a sharp light on small-town American life - not the Arcadian small towns of yesteryear, but the old mill towns hanging on after the mill has stopped running, the deserted agricultural communities in the middle of vast industrial farms, places where bad luck has become part of the weather.

Helen Corbitt is to American cuisine what Julia Child is to French. In The Best from Helen Corbitt's Kitchens, Patty MacDonald serves up more than 500 favourite recipes from Helen Corbitt's Cookbook and her four later cookbooks, as well as many never before published recipes from her cooking schools.

Captures the lore of a community through the eyes of Beatrice Upshaw. The book is a memoir, but it shares more than merely family memories of significant events. It tells of beliefs, home remedies, folk games, and customs, as well as the importance of religion and education to a community of like-minded people.

On a summer's day in Montana, a frontier cavalry officer, Powhatan Henry Clarke, died at the height of his career. He was a fearless field commander, gaining glory and first-hand knowledge of what it took to campaign in the West. A chance meeting brought Clarke together with artist Frederic Remington, who brought national attention to Clarke.

Most readers of the Wild West know Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp for the famous shootout on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. But few know the later years of the close-knit Earp family, which revolved around patriarch Nicholas Earp, and their last push at a major monetary coup in Los Angeles.

US Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942. After the war Burlage wrote about his POW experiences. His daughter discovered his writings in 2008, and has edited them with historical material to provide context for his World War II experiences in the Pacific.

Provides the first comprehensive history of Texas prisons. Bob Alexander and Richard Alford chronicle the significant events and transformation of the Texas prison system from its earliest times to the present day, paying special attention to the human side of the story.

Anshel Brusilow played with or conducted many top-tier classical musicians, and he has opinions about each and every one. This memoir offers a fascinating and unique view of American classical music during an important era, as well as an inspiring story of a working-class immigrant child making good in a tough arena.

Log cabins and houses are more than historical curiosities. They were symbols of American frontier ingenuity. When new building techniques were developed, they became part of a past that was best left behind. UNT Press will be distributing this title, first published in 1979.

Bilingual education is one of the most contentious and misunderstood educational programs in the country. This text studies the origins, evolution, and consequences of federal bilingual education policy from 1960 to 2001, with particular attention to the activist years after 1978, when bilingual policy was heatedly contested.

In 2010 "Written in Blood Volume 1" told the stories of thirteen law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Selcer and Foster are back with Volume 2 covering more line-of-duty deaths. This volume covers 1910 to 1928, as Fort Worth experiences a race riot, lynchings, bushwhacking, assassinations and martial law imposed by the U.S. Army.

In 1972 a North Vietnamese offensive of more than 30,000 men raced to capture Saigon. All that stood in their way was a small band of 6,800 South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers and militiamen, and a handful of American advisors with U.S. air support, guarding An Loc. Thi believes that it is time to set the record straight and here tells the South Vietnamese side of the story.

In the early 1900s, two families in Scurry and Kent counties in West Texas united in a marriage of fourteen-year-old Gladys Johnson to twenty-one-year-old Ed Sims. Billy Johnson, the father, set up Gladys and Ed on a ranch, and the young couple had two daughters. But Gladys was headstrong and willful, and Ed drank too much, and both sought affection outside their marriage. A nasty divorce ensued.