Hurricane season is here! Get the latest from our Hurricanes LibGuide

Access the latest hurricane news, find out what to do before and after a hurricane, learn about hurricanes and how they work, and see images or read accounts of Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Katrina, Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and Superstorm Sandy and get hurricane apps for android and iOS. Go to the Guide!

Features:

-Get live feed on current hurricanes from the National Hurricane Center, NASA and Google news on the home page.
-Get great advice for preparing before a hurricane and what do after on the Before & After a Hurricane page.
-Watch a video on how hurricanes work on the About Hurricanes page.
-Read the full text of The great Galveston disaster: containing a full and thrilling account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times embedded on the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900 page--or download as PDF or EPUB.
-Students and faculty can leave a comment on any box on any page, review the entire guide or suggest more resources on the topic. Please don’t hesitate to provide feedback!
-Learn more about great storms of the past such as Katrina and Ike.

It all started in Galveston, Texas: Read About it in the Juneteenth LibGuide

Access Web sites or COM Only Resources like related eBooks and print books in COM Library. Go to the Guide!

"The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer." --Major General Gordon Granger, Galveston, June 19th, 1865

Featured:

- Read a Google Books preview of Juneteenth Texas on the and see what books and eBooks we have in Juneteenth and emancipation on the Books & eBooks page.
-Listen to Congressman G.K. Butterfield, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., Dean Kurt Schmoke and Professor Emeritus Roger Wilkins, discuss the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation or "Lift Every Voice" mp3 on the Media page.
-Use an interactive Emancipation Timeline or watch a video of Bill Moyers on Juneteenth from the Internet page

New LibGuide: D-Day

D-Day, the code word designating June 6, 1944, the day for the invasion of the Cotentin Peninsula in Nazi-occupied Normandy by Allied forces during the Second World War. The invasion was the largest amphibious landing in history. Within one week of D-Day, the Allies had landed, in the face of hostile obstacles, and by August 25, 1944 had liberated Paris. Go to the guide.

-Watch the film From D-Day to the Rhine.
-Read the book The longest day : June 6, 1944.
-Read the eBook Bedford Boys : One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
-Listen to an eyewitness account from Bill Tucker, veteran of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, remembering the Cotentin Peninsula on D-Day, June 6, 1944.