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Home > Academics > Library & Information Services > Resources by Subject > Biographies

Biographies

Biographical Databases
Biographies Plus 
    Contains more than 111,000 biographies
    and obituaries and more than 32,000
    photographs of the subjects. Many of the
    biographies are enhanced with full text,
    abstracts, and citations from H. W. Wilson
    databases. Biographies Plus includes the
    full text of the articles from more than 100
    volumes of biographical reference books
    including all the articles from all volumes 
    of Current Biography, the
World Author
    Series
, Nobel Prize Winners,
World
    Artists
, World Film Directors and
    numerous biographical books on
    musicians from throughout history.

FirstGov  
    Searches over 20,000 Internet sites.

In the First Person: Index to Letters,
     Diaries, Oral Histories & Other
     Personal Narratives

     2,500 collections of oral history in
     English from around the world.

Lexis-Nexis Academic 
     Research areas in LexisNexis Academic 
     cover top news, general news topics, and 
     news transcripts; foreign language news
     sources; company, industry, and market
     news; legal news; company financial
     information; general medical and health
     topics and medical abstracts; accounting,
     auditing, and tax information; law reviews;
     federal case law; U.S. Code; & state legal
     research. News information is updated
     daily & wire services several times daily.
National Archives
      Official site for the federal agency
      preserving our nation's history and
      managing all federal records.
New York Times  1984 - 2006

New York Times Historical 1851 - 2003

Oxford Reference Online: History
      Including the Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology,
      British History, Kings & Queens of Britain,
      Local & Family History, Political Biography,
      the Popes, the Saints, Twentieth Century
      World History, Guide to the US Government
     
& the Dictionary of World History.

Presidential Libraries
     
The National Archives
coordinates the 10
      electronic Presidential Libraries included. 

Primary Sources in History 
      Primary documents in the following categories:
      Primary Sources in African American History,
      Primary Sources in American Women's
      History & Primary Sources in US
      Presidential History.

USA.gov          

U.S. House of Representatives
      Includes biographical information, hearing
      schedules, events, bills, resolutions,
      employment opportunities & roll call votes.

U. S. Senate
      Provides history, list of senators arranged
      alphabetically and by state, legislative
      activity and committee appointments.


Reference Books
American National Biography

McK Reference Collection REF CT213 .A681999
Dictionary of National Biography
McK Reference Collection REF DA28 .D47