University Of North Texas Press: 174 books
The Road to Safwan
The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 Persian Gulf War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
The Road to Safwan is a complete history of the 1st Infantry Divisions cavalry unit fighting in Operation Desert Storm. Stephen A. Bourque and John W. Burdan III served in the 1st Infantry--Bourque in Division Headquarters, Burdan as the Operations Officer of the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry. Based on extensive...
Beyond the Quagmire
New Interpretations of the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
In Beyond the Quagmire, thirteen scholars from across disciplines provide a series of provocative, important, and timely essays on the politics, combatants, and memory of the Vietnam War. Americans believed that they were supposed to win in Vietnam. As veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip...
Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick
A Grand Opera for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheers grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can experience the process by which this contemporary...
by Gilbert G. Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation analyzes the socioeconomic origins of the theory and practice of segregated schooling for Mexican-Americans from 1910 to 1950. Gilbert G. Gonzalez links the various aspects of the segregated school experience, discussing Americanization, testing, tracking,...
No More Silence
An Oral History of the Assassination of President Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2002
No More Silence is the first oral history of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, from eyewitness accounts through the police reactions, investigations, and aftermath. Based on in-depth interviews conducted in Dallas, it features narratives of forty-nine key eyewitnesses, police officers,...
Yesterday There Was Glory
With the 4th Division, A.E.F., in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In 1946, World War I veteran and self-described “buck private in the rear rank” Gerald Andrew Howell finished a memoir of the experiences of his squad from the 39th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, and their “moments of horror, tragedy, humor, amour, [and] promiscuity” in Europe. This was “the...