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Opening of the Laredo-Mexico Highway

This post was prepared by NDNP graduate student assistant Spencer Houghton, supported by Timothy Gieringer, Coordinator for the NDNP-Texas project. Spencer Houghton is a student at the University of North Texas pursuing a master’s degree in Archival Studies. He lives in Denton, TX with his wife Kaylia and two dogs Joey and Penny. On the… Read more »
Telling the Story of the Harris and Eliza Kempner Collection
Written by Max Rhodes, Lead Metadata Student for the Kempner Collection and a journalism major and history minor. The Digital Projects Lab has recently completed the process of digitizing and describing over 50,000 letters from the Harris and Eliza Kempner Collection. Starting back in March of 2017 and enlisting the help of approximately 30 student… Read more »
New Historical Texas Newspapers Available on Chronicling America

As part of UNT Libraries’ seventh round of National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant funding awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress has begun uploading more Texas newspaper issues to Chronicling America, the digital repository for historic U. S. newspapers. This seventh round of funding, focused on building content from… Read more »
Early Texas Inventions on The Portal to Texas History
This post was written by Madelin Villanueva, a UNT Emerald Eagle Scholar and biomedical engineering major, who is completing an internship in Digital Libraries this semester. Did you know that many Texans invented early versions of the same medical devices we use today? Bandage Leah M. Kirwan patented the bandage pictured below on August 9,… Read more »