Books published by University of North Texas Press,U.S.

Collects the ten winners of the 2014 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event is hostedby the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The contest honours exemplary narrative work and encourages narrative nonfiction storytelling at newspapers across the United States.

Examines 43 great concerti and discusses, in detail, the technical, aural, rehearsal, and intra-personal skills that are required for "effortless excellence". Maestro Itkin wrote this book for conductors first encountering the concerto repertoire and for those wishing to improve their skills on this important, and often understudied, literature.

William L. Wright (1868-1942) was born to be a Texas Ranger, and hard work made him a great one. Wright tried working as a cowboy and farmer, but it did not suit him. Instead, he became a deputy sheriff and then a Ranger, battling a mob in the Laredo Smallpox Riot, policing both sides in the Reese-Townsend Feud, and winning a gunfight at Cotulla.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Provides a comprehensive official modern history of the US Marshals, the oldest federal law enforcement organisation. Turk takes the reader on an informative, easy-to-read round-up of federal marshal activities through the decades.

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.

Texas-based affiliates in the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) offer a strong, mature organizing model compared with other community organizations. In Hope for Justice and Power, Kathleen Staudt examines the twenty-first-century activities of the Texas IAF in multiple cities and towns around the state.

Jesse Lee Hall (1849-1911) was one of many young men seeking a new life following the Civil War, when he left North Carolina to find adventure in Texas. The old warrior died in San Antonio in 1911, loved and respected, having a reputation equaled by few. This book tells hi story.

Bob Camblin was a central figure in the period of artistic fermentation in Houston that is now beginning to receive increasing critical attention. Rowland's insights into him are based on personal letters and conversations. In addition, she brings to bear professional expertise about his place in regional and American art.

This poetry collection is the record of an American's return home after a decade abroad, an exile imposed solely because he loved another man. In a virtuoso display of lyric and formal inventiveness, Bellin-Oka's poems meditate on the myriad losses engendered by diaspora: of home, family and sexual identity, and spiritual certainty.

Examines the photographic postcards of the first half of the twentieth century as illustrated, first-hand accounts of American life. With a meticulous eye for detail, painstaking research, and astute commentary, Wilson surveys more than 160 postcards that provide insights into every aspect of life in a time not far removed from our own.

Discusses operas in the standard repertory from the perspective of a conductor with a lifetime of experience performing them. The book focuses on Joseph Rescigno's approach to performing these masterworks in order to realize what opera can uniquely achieve: a fusion of music and drama resulting in a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Collects the winners of the 2019 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.

The poems in James Najarian's debut collection are by turns tragic and mischievous, always with an exuberant attention to form. Najarian turns his caprine eye to the landscapes and history of Berks Country, Pennsylvania, and to the middle east of his extended Armenian family. These poems examine our bonds to the earth, to animals, to art and to desire.