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From COM Library Top Stories of 2015 in science and technology from Discover magazine. Access the full color issue through Zinio . Not sure how to use Zinio? Get the guide . Must be on campus or have a COM ID to access of campus. Get the Year in Review 2015 from NewsBank . Top stories in business, government, media, health, sports, natural disasters and lots more. Not sure how to use America's News? Get the guide . Must be on campus or have a COM ID to access of campus. Open Access CNN The Year in Pictures CNN Selfies of the Year Facebook Your Year in Review IMDB Top-US-Grossing Feature Films Released In 2015 Gizmodo Best and Worst Television Moments of 2015 Google A Year in Search 2015 Houston Press Best of Houston 2015 NPRs Book Concierge Guide to Top 2015 Great Reads RollingStone 20 Best Lists of 2015

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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.

Your need to read a classic work of literature for class like Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart , but you don't know how to find it. We help students with that all the time, and now we have brand new tips just for you! Go to the Guide . Get our tips for finding the classics in print and online, like the eBook Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales where you can read stories like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Read Death, and The Pit and the Pendulum . We even point you to some great sites where you can download free classics to keep!

When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks, for troops to carry in their pockets and their rucksacks, in every theater of war. Comprising 1,200 different titles of every imaginable type, these paperbacks were beloved by the troops and are still fondly remembered today. Soldiers read them while waiting to land at Normandy; in hellish trenches in the midst of battles in the Pacific; in field hospitals; and on long bombing flights. They wrote to the authors, many of whom responded to every letter. They helped rescue The Great Gatsby from obscurity. They made Betty ...

Read about the history of Hispanic Americans, including books, articles, media, primary and secondary sources. Go to the guide . Features Watch the PBS series Latin Music U.S.A. Listen to first hand accounts from Cesar Chavez or learn about Flor Del Pueblo from the the audio CD From the vault subject series, Volume II .   Read the book The Hispanic presence in North America from 1492 to today.   Read the eBook Del Pueblo : A History of Houston's Hispanic Community.