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October is American Archives Month

October is American Archives Month. Check out our collection of classic periodicals and streaming media. Read full text, full image top magazines: The Atlantic, Ebony, Jet, Life, The Nation, National Geographic, Newsweek, Time and Vanity Fair, or Texas newspapers El Paso Times and The Austin American Statesman. Stream archival films and newsreels from Films on Demand and AVON. Go to the Archives Collection. 



Featured from the Collection






* The Awakening of the Negro by Booker T. Washington, The Atlantic 1896

* Troubles of Mitchell (Stock market Crash), Time 1929

* Evolution of the speakeasy, Vanity Fair 1932

* The McCarthy Method, The Nation, 1950

* THE KING PLAN FOR FREEDOM: Protest leader M. L. King, Jr., stresses eight points to speed equality fight, Ebony 1956

* Apollo’s Great Leap for the Moon, Life 1969

* 'My God! They're Killing US' (Kent State), Newsweek 1970

* America’s New Beginning: Barack Obama Sworn In 44th President, Jet 2009

* These Animals are Slipping Away, National Geographic 2020







COM History





And don't forget COM's own archives! Over the years several publications and many photographs have been digitized, with more to come. Here are some highlights: 




* Digitized photos

* Digitized COM Student Newspapers 

* The Badelynge Review (Annual literary and art journal by College of the Mainland students)

* Digitized COM Catalogs

* More about COM History


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