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American National Biography
Offers portraits of more than 18,000 men and women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Indexes biographical listings in dictionaries and encyclopedias covering millions individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.
Biography in Context
Provides biographical information on more than 335,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.
Current Biography Illustrated
Full text of Current Biography magazine.
Marquis Who's Who on the Web
Basic biographical information on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals worldwide from all fields of endeavor.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Contains over 50,000 biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times through the most recent years.
Ancestry Library Edition
Access to more than 7 billion names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records, Passenger Lists and UK & Ireland records. Library version of Ancestry.com.
Auto/Biography
Auto/Biography is an international and interdisciplinary journal addressing theoretical, epistemological, and empirical issues relating to autobiographical and biographical research.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present
Provides biographical information on the more than 13,000 persons who have served in the United States Congress, including those who served in the Continental Congress.
Biography Index
Indexes English-language biographical material appearing in books, magazines, and selected newspapers.
Contemporary Authors
Biographical coverage of more than 100,000 writers, entries on contemporary authors.
Credo Reference
Provides full-text online versions of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects from art to medicine, psychology to history, and technology to literature. Includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The Dictionary of Canadian biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (DCB/DBC) is a scholarly research and publishing project carried out jointly by the University of Toronto and the Universit
Dictionary of Irish Biography
The Dictionary of Irish Biography, is a collaborative project with over 9,000 signed biographical articles, between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres. This is available in the Literature Resource Center.
Electronic Enlightenment
Electronic Enlightenment is a database which provides unrivalled online access to 18th-century primary sources that can be searched or browsed as a complete collection.
Guide to Reference
Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline. Users can choose to set up a profile to create and save lists and notes to use in their reference and research work.
Internet Broadway Database
A definitive source for the facts on Broadway musicals and plays from Aristophanes to Ziegfeld. Includes number of performances, extensive credit information, theatres, characters, and more.
Literary Manuscripts
Literary Manuscripts is drawn from the nineteenth century holdings of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Literature Resource Center
Features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
Martindale.com
An online directory of lawyers and law firms around the world.
National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Search
Search more than 100,000 portrait records from the Catalog of American Portraits.
Nobel Prizes and Laureates
Search the Nobel e-Museum for information about the prize and past winners.
Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea
Una enciclopedia en el idioma español que contiene aproximadamente quince mil artículos con más de seis mil photos.
Pulitzer Prizes
A Website that includes an archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning works from past years including photos, editorial cartoons, music clips, and the full text of all articles.
Something About the Author
Biographical profiles of children's authors and artists.
U.S. History in Context
Variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. Also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps.
Union List of Artists Names
Contains biographical information about artists and architects, including variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.
World Biographical Information System (WBIS) Online
Contains short biographical information on millions of people worldwide from the 8th century B.C. to the present.
World History in Context
From antiquity to the present day, search a broad collection of scholarly analysis and full-text periodicals, reference works and primary documents that cover the events, movements, and individuals that have shaped world history.
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