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Cinco de Mayo or the Fifth of May is a national holiday in Mexico commemorating the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, in which Mexican troops under General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated the invading French forces of Napoleon III. Although the battle itself represented only a temporary setback for the French, the Mexicans' victory against overwhelming odds gave them the confidence they needed to persevere until finally triumphing on April 2, 1867. The anniversary of this event is celebrated not only in Mexico but in many American communities with large Mexican-American populations—especially in the southwestern states of Texas, Arizona, and southern California. The events include parades, patriotic speeches, bullfights, barbecues, and beauty contests. Olvera Street in Los Angeles is particularly known for its Cinco de Mayo celebration. ~  from CREDO Cultural Studies: Holidays Around the World Go to the Cinco de Mayo guide or see all our  Hispanic Amer...

Read about the history of Asian Pacific Americans, including books, articles, streaming media, primary and secondary sources. Go to the guide , see all Asian & Asian American Guides .   #Stop Asian Hate   Asian & Asian American Literature   Asian & Oceanic Art   Asian Pacific American History   Kazuo Ishiguro

Read about the history of African Americans, including books, articles, media, primary and open access sources. Go to the guide! Read one of our great new eBooks from OverDrive like The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead on your device. Watch NBC's Martin Luther King, Jr.: Look Here (30:00) from 1957. View historical photographs from the Library of Congress. Download full text classics like Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington.

EasyBib EDU helps you generate citations and create bibliographies all our top citation styles, including ACS, APA, GSA, MLA 7, MLA 8, and more! Learn the basics and how to get free access. Get the code from the Circulation or Lab desk in COM Library. Go to the guide .

HBO® has always been at the forefront of documentary programming, producing and developing some of the most provocative, groundbreaking, and award-winning films. These films have won virtually every major programming award, including the Academy Award®, the Emmy® Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award. Available now through COM Library's Films on Demand . Go to the Guide . Featured Titles Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery Situated in a quiet pocket of Arlington National Cemetery, Section 60 is a final resting place for young men and women who died fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. For families and friends, it is a place to grieve, to honor, to remember—and to find comfort and community with others who have shared the same profound loss. The Fence In 2006, the United States government decided to build a fence along its Mexican border. In The Fence, award-winning filmmaker Rory Kennedy investigates the impact of the...

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.

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...

Memorial Day, May 30th, 2016. Honoring America's wartime veterans.  Go to the guide . Features Stream Ken Burns’ classic Emmy Award–winning nine-part series The Civil War . Read the book No way out : a story of valor in the mountains of Afghanistan . Read the eBook In Enemy Hands : Personal Accounts of Those Taken Prisoner in World War II Read an eyewitness account of Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945 . And don't forget to check out our Memorial Day display in the library! 

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Read about the history of Asian Pacific Americans, including books, articles, streaming media, primary and secondary sources. Go to the guide . Features Read the eBook Asian North American Identities : Beyond the Hyphen Watch a video of What it means to be Asian American from Asia Society. View Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanaron See the Interactive Asians in American Timeline.

Mexico, the 5th of May in the Plaza de Armas, 1862 Cinco de Mayo, when the Mexican army beat the French. Get the best articles, books, eBooks, media and open access sources for Cinco de Mayo. Go to the guide . Features Stream a video from Films on Demand, Cinco de Mayo. Get Cinco de Mayo recipes. Find out more about the Battle Puebla from the History Research Center. And don't forget to check out our Cinco de Mayo display in the library! 

April 22nd is Earth day. Get the best books, eBooks, articles, media and open access sources on going green.  Go to the guide . Features Find out what you can do at home and work--including several carbon footprint calculators & how to offset. Get books & eBooks on climate change and things you can do about it. Stream a video from Films on Demand on fracking, Shattered Ground .

April 15, 2016, LGBT Day of Silence. Get books, eBooks, articles, media and open access sources on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Go to the guide . Features Stream the video Out in America . Read the book Law and the Gay Rights Story : The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy. Read the eBook Transgender Voices : Beyond Women and Men . Access the Advocate , Gay News, LGBT Rights, Politics, Entertainment. And don't forget to check out the LGBT Club display in the library! 

Poet Robinson Jeffers April is National Poetry Month. Get the best books, eBooks, articles, media and open access resources on Poetry or read the classics. Go to the Guide . Features Read the eBook Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Watch a video of an interview with Carl Sandburg from NBCs Wisdom Series.  Read the print book, On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove

March is Women’s History Month. Learn more about women’s history from these COM Library Guides     African American Women’s History   American Women’s History   Texas Women’s History   Women’s History   Women’s Suffrage

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Learn about the history of our Veterans, Veterans Day and the USO and get resources for Veterans and their families.  Go to the Guide . Features   Read Voices of war : stories of service from the home front and the front lines (Books & eBooks). Read online the eBook Veteran’s Guide to Benefits (Returning Vets & Families). Read first hand accounts of life at war from the Veterans History Project (Internet). View Civil War photographs from the Library of Congress (Media). Watch online Kansas to Kandahar: Citizen Soldiers at War (60:00; Media).

Learn about the history of Native Americans, including books, articles, media, primary and secondary sources.  Go to the guide . Features Watch the excellent PBS Series: We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes and more from the Films on Demand. Read the eBook  The Indian Chief As Tragic Hero : Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, From Moctezuma to Tecumseh. See a map of American Indian Groups prior to European Colonization.   View a slide show of historical photographs collected by the Library of Congress, National Archives, Smithsonian, and more.