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Independence Day changed the world. Learn more about it with the best books, eBooks, articles, media and Internet resources. Go to the Guide! Features Stream the film Revolution: America—The Story of Us. Read the book by David G McCullough, 1776 . Read the eBook The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society . And don't forget to check out the Fourth of July display in the library! 

Access the latest hurricane news, find out what to do before and after a hurricane, learn about hurricanes and how they work, get hurricane apps for android and iOS or access our historical hurricane guides on Ike, Katrina, and the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Go to the Guide! Features   Get the top free apps that can help during a hurricane. Get live feed on current hurricanes from the National Hurricane Center, NASA and Google news. Get great advice for preparing before a hurricane and what do after. Watch a video on how hurricanes. And don't forget to check out our Hurricane Preparedness display in the library!  

Access the best resources on Juneteenth and Emancipation 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 Features   Read the eBook Juneteenth Texas : Essays in African-American Folklore . 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 Download the " Lift Every Voice " mp3. Use an interactive Emancipation Timeline or watch a video of Bill Moyers on Juneteenth.

In our book of the month, a graphic novel, Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto is framed as a traitor by the agents from a rival clan. With his wife murdered and with an infant son to protect, Ogami chooses the path of the ronin, the masterless samurai. The Lone Wolf and Cub wander feudal Japan, Ogami's sword for hire, but all roads will lead them to a single destination: vengeance. A samurai epic of staggering proportions, the acclaimed Lone Wolf and Cub begins its second life at Dark Horse Manga with new, larger editions of over 700 pages, value priced. The brilliant storytelling of series creator Kazuo Koike and the groundbreaking cinematic visuals of Goseki Kojima create a graphic-fiction masterpiece of beauty, fury, and thematic power. This volume collects material previously published in Dark Horse graphic novels Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road, Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 2: The Gateless Barrier, Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 3: The Flute of the Fallen Tiger

Our eBook of the month is The Story of Lee . Lee, living in Hong Kong, meets Matt, a fine young Englishman. Their relationship becomes stronger by the day, despite their deep cultural differences. But there is Lee's Dad to contend with who views this affair very suspiciously. And there is another contender for Lee's heart, a Chinese young man, whose jealousy takes on twinges of xenophobia. Will Lee and Matt's relationship successfully cross the cultural divide and overcome the negative odds? Two worlds collide creating good sparks and bad ones."- Summary courtesy of goodreads.com.  Read it now in EBSCO eBooks . See our latest EBSCO eBooks .

Read about the history of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people and issues faced today. Get books, eBooks, articles, streaming media, primary and secondary sources. Go to the guide . Features Read the EBSCO eBook Chicago Whispers : A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall. Read articles about Gay and transgender rights from Issues & Controversies , Opposing Viewpoints or CQ Researcher . Stream the critically acclaimed PBS documentary Out in America . Read the primary sources in the book Gay and lesbian rights in the United States : a documentary history . Check out the MILK DVD.

"Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat." Photograph by CphoM. Robert F. Sargent, June 6, 1944 from the National Archives and Records Administration. 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 . Features Stream the film From D-Day to the Rhine . Read the book The longest day : June 6, 1944 . Read the eBook B edford 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 Pe