United States. Army Nurse Corps.; Military nursing.; United States--Armed Forces--Nurses.; Generals.; Military biography.; Women-Texas.; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
Dunlap home, 125 Brettonwood Drive, San Antonio, Texas Texas Women's Hall of Fame member Lillian Dunlap joined the Army Nurse Corps during World War II straight out of the Santa Rosa School of Nursing intent on serving only for the war's duration....
Katsuro, Paul; Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.); Kennedy Internment Camp (Kennedy, Tex.); Japanese Americans--Texas; World War, 1939-1945; Houston (Tex.)
Houston, Texas
Verbal notes from interview with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Katsuro concerning internment camps in Crystal City and Kennedy, Texas, Santa Fe, and Idaho during World War II. Katsuro tells history of this Japanese Texan family who settled in...
Mexican Americans--Texas--San Antonio--Periodicals.; San Antonio (Tex.)--Periodicals.
Independent, community-based newspaper published by a team of volunteers and distributed in the economically poor sectors of San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper's mission was to publish news and analysis relevant to working families. A donation of...
Palestine (Tex.).; Anderson County (Tex.).; Schools--Texas.; Cotton gins and ginning.; Farm tenancy--Texas.
Personal recollections of Alva Robinson, whose father owned a properous cotton farm in Palestine, including information on farm life, education, social, religious activities during the early 20th century.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963--Assassination.; Oswald, Lee Harvey.
Edisen is a neurophysiologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She has been involved in medical researching and teaching for several decades. In 1963, Edisen had interactions with Jose Rivera that led her to a different outcome...
San Antonio, Texas
Jazz banjo player John H. Bragg knew Scott Joplin, played with Don Albert and lived in the center of the jazz era in Texas and beyond. Bragg shared stages with some of jazz’s greatest stars of the 1920s and 1930s and organized...
Ranch life--Texas; Women ranchers; Coleman County (Tex.)--History; Burkes, Amanda; Lea, Mabel (Doss) Day, 1854-1906; Day, William H., 1833-1881
Amanda Burkes and Mabel Day Lea were widowed while young women, but successfully continued ranching following the death of their husbands in the late nineteenth century.
Using his restored chuck wagon as display during the Folklife Festival, Tom Perini discusses the history and development of chuck wagons and explains the purposes they served.