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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.

This year COM Library was lucky enough to receive a $10,000 Impact Grant for Library Innovation and Improvement. The project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. The purpose of the OverDrive Project @ COM Library is to provide eBooks to our students, faculty and staff that we can’t get from our current eBook providers, like great 20th and 21st century authors such as Cormac McCarthy, George Orwell and Chinua Achebe as well as eBooks that support student success, health, and more. The eBooks are available on or off campus, 24/7 with your COM ID. You can read on your favorite Android, iOS or Kindle Fire device.

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...

A look up at the night sky reveals a treasury of wonders. Even to the naked eye, the Moon, stars, planets, the Milky Way and even a few star clusters and nebulae illuminate the heavens. For millennia, humans struggled to make sense of what's out there in the Universe, from all we can see to that which lies beyond the limits of even our most powerful telescopes. Beyond the Galaxy traces our journey from an ancient, Earth-centered Universe all the way to our modern, 21st century understanding of the cosmos. Touching on not only what we know but also how we know it, Ethan Siegel takes us to the very frontiers of modern astrophysics and cosmology, from the birth of our Universe to its ultimate fate, and everything in between.- Summary courtesy of goodreads.com.  Read it now in EBSCO eBooks . See our latest EBSCO eBooks .

Twentieth-century American society wittily and ironically portrayed by a great artist. Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), one of the most popular American artists of the past century, has often been regarded as a simple illustrator and had his work identified with the covers of the Saturday Evening Post. He is, instead, a total artist. An acute observer of human nature and talented storyteller, Rockwell captured America’s evolving society in small details and nuances, portraying scenes of the everyday life of ordinary people and presenting a personal and often idealized interpretation of the American identity. His images offered a reassuring visual haven in a period of epoch-making transformation that led to the birth of the modern American society. The art of Norman Rockwell entered the homes of millions of Americans for over fifty years, illustrating the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, World War II, and the 1950s and 1960s. His works mirror aspects of the life of average Americans wi...

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!