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Military legend

Posted on Mon, 03/07/2016 - 10:56am
The subject of the book by Michael Leggiere, professor of history and deputy director of UNT's Military History Center, is a Prussian general who outwitted a legend.
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Texas Women

Posted on Wed, 06/03/2015 - 2:22pm
Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of history, co-edited the book Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, which profiles women who have made profound changes in the Lone Star state.
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War stories

Posted on Tue, 03/17/2015 - 1:57pm
In his latest book, A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire, history professor Geoffrey Wawro fills in a neglected but crucial aspect of World War I: the disastrous diplomacy, strategy and military performance of Austria-Hungary.
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UNT alumnus Mark Dostert turns experience as jail guard into book

Posted on Fri, 12/05/2014 - 11:00am
In 1997, Mark Dostert ('97 M.A.) began working at Chicago's 500-cell juvenile jail as a "children's attendant," thinking he would serve as liaison between the inmates and the actual guards.
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Civil War leader

Posted on Mon, 09/08/2014 - 9:00am
Richard Lowe, Regents Professor of history, annotated the previously unpublished manuscript of a Civil War military leader in Greyhound Commander: Confederate General John G. Walker's History of the Civil War West of the Mississippi.
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Soviet society

Posted on Thu, 05/29/2014 - 10:55am
In Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s: Disenchantment of the Dreamers, Olga Velikanova, associate professor of history, studied the popular opinions of people in post-revolutionary Russia.

Mapping texts project provides new ways to explore content of historical Texas newspapers

Posted on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 11:57am
Andrew Torget, assistant professor of history, and Rada Mihalcea, associate professor of computer science and engineering, have made it easier for users of the Portal to Texas History -- part of the UNT Libraries' digital collections -- to browse the pages of historical Texas newspapers online.
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Brilliantly Green

Posted on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 9:23am
A women's studies course is the first UNT study abroad trip to Tunisia, a junior history major attended the Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program in New York City as a fellowship finalist, four new YouTube videos show UNT's innovation and growth and UNT has been named a Military Friendly School for 2011 by G.I. Jobs magazine.
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Mexican Americans

Posted on Wed, 03/19/2014 - 9:14am
Roberto R. Calderón, associate professor of history, explores Mexican American history in North Texas in his book Más allá del Río Bravo: breve historia mexicana del norte de Texas.
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German military

Posted on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 6:52pm
Robert M. Citino, professor of history, has written his ninth book, The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943, about the German army's campaigns near the end of World War II.
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