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At Duke, Unterberger enrolled in a seminar with Professor Charles Sydnor. She wrote a paper on Thomas Braidwood of Scotland and the origin of schools for the hearing impaired.<ref name=oah/> This article, "The First Attempt to Establish an Oral School for the Deaf and Dumb in the United States," was published in 1947 in ''The Journal of Southern History'' and became the first of her many publications.<ref>Betty Miller Unterberger, "The First Attempt to Establish an Oral School for the Deaf and Dumb in the United States," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. XIII (November, 1947), pp. 556-566.</ref> This was a  much different topic than her later writings, the majority of which focus on foreign policy.​

At Duke, Unterberger enrolled in a seminar with Professor Charles Sydnor. She wrote a paper on Thomas Braidwood of Scotland and the origin of schools for the hearing impaired.<ref name=oah/> This article, "The First Attempt to Establish an Oral School for the Deaf and Dumb in the United States," was published in 1947 in ''The Journal of Southern History'' and became the first of her many publications.<ref>Betty Miller Unterberger, "The First Attempt to Establish an Oral School for the Deaf and Dumb in the United States," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. XIII (November, 1947), pp. 556-566.</ref> This was a  much different topic than her later writings, the majority of which focus on foreign policy.​

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==Academic career==​

==Academic career==

From 1948-1950, while she was still working on her Ph.D., Unterberger taught at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. From 1954 to 1961, she was an associate professor of history and the director of the Liberal Arts Center for Adults at Whittier College in Whittier, [[Californai]], and from 1961 to 1965, an associate professor at [[California State University, Fullerton]], at which from 1965 to 1968 she was professor and chair of the graduate studies division.<ref name=bmuvita>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/unterberger/cv.pdf|title=Betty Miller Unterberger: Curriculum Vitae|publisher=tamu.edu|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref>​

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From 1948-1950, while she was still working on her Ph.D., Unterberger taught at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. From 1954 to 1961, she was an associate professor of history and the director of the Liberal Arts Center for Adults at Whittier College in Whittier, [[California]], and from 1961 to 1965, an associate professor at California State University, Fullerton, at which from 1965 to 1968 she was professor and chair of the graduate studies division.<ref name=bmuvita>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/unterberger/cv.pdf|title=Betty Miller Unterberger: Curriculum Vitae|publisher=tamu.edu|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref>​

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In 1968, Unterberger came to Texas A&M University as a full professor. Her appointment coincidentally developed when her husband, Robert Ruppe Unterberger (April 27, 1921 &ndash; February 14, 2016), accepted a full professorship in geophysics at TAMU. In his career, Robert Unterberger researched unique forms of [[radar]] and [[sonar]] and obtained several international [[patent]]s.<ref name=robertr>{{cite web|url=http://www.theeagle.com/obituaries/unterberger-robert-ruppe/article_988183e4-3d4e-5c88-8a5a-b8974378f8c8.html|title=Robert Unterberger obituary|publisher=''The Bryan-College Station Eagle''|accessdate=February 17, 2016}}</ref><ref name=oah/> "I felt very much alone [as a woman] at Texas A&M, but it wasn't strange to me," Unterberger said much later (There had been only three women professors in southern California at the time that the Unterbergers came to Texas). "I had been told that I [was] taking the bread out of the mouths of deserving male grad students," Unterberger often recalled.<ref name=battalion>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebatt.com/2.8485/a-m-s-first-woman-prof-speaks-out-1.120703|author=Carrie Pierce|title=A&M's first woman prof speaks out|date=January 27, 2004|publisher=''Texas A&M Battalion'' student newspaper|accessdate=October 22, 2010}}</ref> Offered a full professorship by Horace R. Byers, then the Texas A&M vice president for academic affairs, Unterberger recalled that he asked her to "internationalize the history department and build the graduate program. I love to build programs, and this was a wonderful challenge."<ref>"Twelve Fearless Firsts," ''Spirit: The Texas A&M Foundation Magazine,'' Fall 2013, p. 42.</ref>​

In 1968, Unterberger came to Texas A&M University as a full professor. Her appointment coincidentally developed when her husband, Robert Ruppe Unterberger (April 27, 1921 &ndash; February 14, 2016), accepted a full professorship in geophysics at TAMU. In his career, Robert Unterberger researched unique forms of [[radar]] and [[sonar]] and obtained several international [[patent]]s.<ref name=robertr>{{cite web|url=http://www.theeagle.com/obituaries/unterberger-robert-ruppe/article_988183e4-3d4e-5c88-8a5a-b8974378f8c8.html|title=Robert Unterberger obituary|publisher=''The Bryan-College Station Eagle''|accessdate=February 17, 2016}}</ref><ref name=oah/> "I felt very much alone [as a woman] at Texas A&M, but it wasn't strange to me," Unterberger said much later (There had been only three women professors in southern California at the time that the Unterbergers came to Texas). "I had been told that I [was] taking the bread out of the mouths of deserving male grad students," Unterberger often recalled.<ref name=battalion>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebatt.com/2.8485/a-m-s-first-woman-prof-speaks-out-1.120703|author=Carrie Pierce|title=A&M's first woman prof speaks out|date=January 27, 2004|publisher=''Texas A&M Battalion'' student newspaper|accessdate=October 22, 2010}}</ref> Offered a full professorship by Horace R. Byers, then the Texas A&M vice president for academic affairs, Unterberger recalled that he asked her to "internationalize the history department and build the graduate program. I love to build programs, and this was a wonderful challenge."<ref>"Twelve Fearless Firsts," ''Spirit: The Texas A&M Foundation Magazine,'' Fall 2013, p. 42.</ref>​