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• These collections focuses primarily on state and local politicians. Foremost among the holdings are the papers of U.S. Congressmen Olin E. Teague and Robert Casey. Texas Legislators include Bill Presnal, Will L. Smith, Tom Creighton, Susan G. McBee, John Traeger, Billy W. Clayton, and former Texas governor William P. Clements. Of national interest are the research files of noted journalist Bascom N. Timmons.

• Here are entered works on the policy of favoring the native inhabitants of a country over immigrants and, particularly in American history, of favoring native Protestants over Catholic immigrants.

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• Here are entered works on literature, art, music, motion pictures, etc. produced for a mass audience. General works on learning and scholarship, literature, the arts, etc. are entered under Intellectual life.

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• Comprised of nearly 30,000 volumes spanning military history from the American Civil War through and including the Gulf War, but concentrating most heavily on the twentieth century (from the Spanish-American war through the Gulf War). It is strong in areas such as naval and aviation history.

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• Primarily printed books, ephemera, and manuscript material. To a lesser extent, there are also material artifacts.

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• The Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection is one of the world's largest academic collections devoted to these genres, containing books, pulp magazines, scholarly journals, epherema, maps, fanworks, collections of archival materials (including the personal and professional papers of authors), among other materials. The collection ranges across the early modern and recent histories of these genres, from the 16th century through today.

• Here are entered works about science fiction conventions. Texts of the proceedings of science fiction conventions are entered under the appropriate subject heading with the subdivision Congresses.