For more than a century, medical schools and academic campuses were largely separate in Texas. Though new medical technologies and drugs-conceivably, even a vaccine instrumental in the prevention of a pandemic-might be developed on an academic campus such as the University of Texas at Austin, there was no co-located medical school with which to collaborate. Faculty members were left to seek experts on distant campuses. That all changed on May 3, 2012, when the UT System Board of Regents voted to create the Dell Medical School in Austin. This book tells in detail and for the first time the story of how this change came about: how dedicated administrators, alumni, business leaders, community organizers, doctors, legislators, professors, and researchers joined forces, overcame considerable resistance, and raised the funds to build a new medical school without any direct state monies. Funding was secured in large part by the unique willingness of the local community to tax itself to pay for the financial operations of the school. Kenneth I. Shine and Amy Shaw Thomas, who witnessed this process from their unique vantages as past and present vice chancellors for health affairs in the University of Texas System, offer a working model that will enable other leaders to more effectively seek solutions, avoid pitfalls, and build for the future.

Many women who lived through the Second World War believed it heralded new status and opportunities. But did it? Making the Best of It examines how gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders during the war. The contributors to this thoughtful collection consider mainstream and minority populations, girls and women, and different parts of Canada and Newfoundland in their essays. Ultimately, they lay a foundation for a better understanding of the ways in which the lives of Canadian women and girls were altered during and after the 1940s.

A carefully curated collection of primary and secondary source documents that introduces students to the approaches and methodologies historians use to interpret the past. Thought-provoking and engaging, this acclaimed pre-Confederation reader introduces students to the approaches and methodologies historians use to understand the past. Organized both chronologically and thematically, the expertly-curated readings provide students with a balance of primary source documents and scholarly articles to explore the nation's history before 1867.

The First World War demanded sacrifice from all levels of society, and the degree to which citizens at home were expected to "dotheir bit" was made explicit in national propaganda. Women andgirls in Canada and Newfoundland were indelibly affected by, and wereintegral parts of, their countries' war efforts. Yet their variedresponses and myriad activities are not recognized in our memory of thewar.

"A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service" actively engages inredressing that absence and in exploring why the retelling ofwomen's stories meets such resistance. Drawing upon amultidisciplinary spectrum of recent work - studies on mobilizingwomen, paid and volunteer employment at home and overseas, grief, childhood, family life, and literary representations - thiscollection brings Canadian and Newfoundland women and girls into thehistory of the First World War and marks their place in the narrativeof national transformation.

Recognizing women's active and emotional responses to theFirst World War is a crucial step towards understanding how that warshaped Newfoundland and Canada both during and after the conflict. Thisvolume is therefore essential reading for anyone interested in thehistory of women, the First World War, Newfoundland, or Canada.

Sarah Glassford teaches history at the Universityof Ottawa and Carleton University. Amy Shaw is anassociate professor of history at the University of Lethbridge andauthor of "Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Canadaduring the First World War."

The First World War's appalling death toll and the need for a sense of equality of sacrifice on the home front led to Canada's first experience of overseas conscription. While historians have focused on resistance to enforced military service in Quebec, this has obscured the important role of those who saw military service as incompatible with their religious or ethical beliefs. Crisis of Conscience is the first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War. The experience of these conscientious objectors offers insight into evolving attitudes about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship during a key period of Canadian nation building.

Ole Hendricks was an immigrant both representative and exceptional - a true artistic talent who nevertheless lived a familiar immigrant experience. By day, he was a farmer. But at night, his fiddle lit up dance halls, bringing together all manner of neighbors in rural Minnesota. Each tune in his repertoire of waltzes, reels, polkas, quadrilles, and more were copied neatly into his commonplace book. Such tunebooks, popular during the nineteenth century, rarely survive and are often overlooked by folk scholars in favor of commercially produced recordings, published sheet music, or oral tradition. Based on extensive historical and genealogical research, Amy Shaw presents a grounded picture of a musician, his family, and his community in the Upper Midwest, revealing much about music and dance in the area. This notable contribution to regional music and folklore includes more than one hundred of Ole's dance tunes, transcribed into modern musical notation for the first time. Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook will be valuable to readers and scholars interested in ethnomusicology and the Norwegian American immigrant experience.