Biographies
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African American Biographical Database This link opens in a new windowFrom July 1, 2023 AABD became a component of ProQuest Black Studies Center.
Biographical sketches and essays on African Americans from 1790 to 1950. The Database corresponds to the printed Black Biographical Dictionaries. These sketches have been assembled from biographical dictionaries, yearbooks, directories, histories, personal accounts, and other published sources. The full text of 300 rare books is displayed and searchable in page images, intact with images and illustrations. -
American National Biography This link opens in a new windowThere is no need to sign in at website to access this resource. Begin searching or browsing for articles.
The American National Biography is the premier, authoritative, historical biographical encyclopedia for the United States. Over 18,700 men and women are included, and the resource is updated quarterly with new entries and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. Articles are by established scholars. Living individuals are not included. -
Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new windowGale In Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Biography merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
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Current Biography Illustrated This link opens in a new windowCurrent Biography Illustrated contains profiles of individuals living at the time of publication, often at the height of, or even the beginning of, their fame or notoriety. Occasionally a revised biography will be published, and a brief obituary, but published biographies are never revised in light of later events, so a useful source for seeing how individuals were perceived at the time they were active. Illustrations for most individuals are included.
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Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new windowProvides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analayses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, essayist, poets, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Includes links to: Dictionary of literary biography, Contemporary authors, Contemporary literary criticism, and more.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new windowOffers an illustrated collection of biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past.
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World Biographical Information System WBIS This link opens in a new windowOver 3.6 million short biographical entries for individuals who lived across the world from ancient times to the present. Includes full text images of the original sources, usually older biographical dictionaries. Especially valuable for locating information on hard-to-find individuals from the past.
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Almanac of American PoliticsIncludes profiles of every member of Congress and every governor. It offers in-depth and completely up-to-date narrative profiles of all 50 states and 435 House districts.
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The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese BiographyIn 135 entries, written by some of the world's leading China scholars, the Dictionary takes the reader from the important figures of ancient China to Communist leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
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Chambers Biographical DictionaryInternational and historical coverage of all areas of human achievement including the arts, science, technology, sport, politics, philosophy and business.
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Complete Dictionary of Scientific BiographyProvides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. Covers all periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times.
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Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American BiographyThis work encompasses the full scope of history, with entries on figures from the first forced slave migrations in the sixteenth centuries to entries on living persons such as the Haitian musician and politician Wyclef Jean and the Cuban author and poet Nancy Morejón.
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Dictionary of World BiographyBrief entries on hundreds of individuals, living and dead.
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Palgrave MacMillan Dictionary of Women’s BiographyBiographical information about women: historical, current, and worldwide.
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The Ad Men and Women
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Call Number: 659.10922 A189 MUDD LIBRARY Annex 3ISBN: 0313278016Publication Date: 1994 -
Br̥hat Hindī sāhityakāra sandarbha kośa
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Call Number: Main Library South Asian Collection - 5 South PK2034 .B75 2014ISBN: 9789380916989Publication Date: 2014 -
Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus
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Call Number: BP70 .B34 Styberg Library ReferenceISBN: 9004141170Publication Date: 2004 -
Diccionario biográfico español.
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Call Number: 920.046 D5447 MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)ISBN: 8496849562Publication Date: 2009-2013Example of a national historical biographical encyclopedia.
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Dictionary of Irish Biography
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Call Number: 941.50099 D554 MAIN Reference (Non-circulating)ISBN: 9780521633314Publication Date: 2009Example of a national historical biographical encyclopedia. -
Dictionnaire du jeune cinéma français: des années 2000 à nos jours
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Call Number: Main Library Stacks PN1993.5.F8 P74 2017ISBN: 2369425407Publication Date: 2017
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Dizionario biografico degli Italiani
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Call Number: Main Library 1 East - Reference Section 920.045 D622ISBN: 9788812000326Publication Date: 1960- [work in progress]Example of a national historical biographical encyclopedia.
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Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists
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Call Number: 704.03924 B315e Art Collection (Deering Library) Non-CirculatingISBN: 0313336377Publication Date: 2006 -
Nihon shisōshi jiten by
Call Number: Main Library Japanese Collection - 5 South 181.12 N692ISBN: 9784490107968Publication Date: 2013 -
100 Entertainers Who Changed America
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Call Number: Main Library Stacks 920.07303 O58ISBN: 9781598848304Publication Date: 2013 -
Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Design since 1900
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Call Number: 709.04 J94t 2005 Art Collection (Deering Library) Reference Non-CirculatingISBN: 9780500203798Publication Date: 2005 -
Wer ist wer? Das deutsche who's who.
Call Number: Main Library 1 East - Reference Section 920.043 W485Publication Date: Published annually.Example of a national "Who's Who" of contemporary individuals.
Search tips: How to locate sources for Biography reference works in the library collections
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- Biography --Dictionaries
- African Americans --Biography --Dictionaries
- United States --Biography --Dictionaries
- France --Biography --Dictionaries
- Advertising --United States --Biography --Dictionaries
- United States. Congress --Biography
- African Americans --Biography --Databases
- Intellectuals --France --Biography --Dictionaries
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