Biography
GENERAL BIOGRAPHIES
- Biography.com Database of more than 25,000 famous people past and present. Good links to other sites.
- Biographical Dictionary Short dictionary style entries for more than 28,000 men and women from the ancient past to the present day.
- Famous People of the 20th Century From About.com
- Information Please Almanac 30,000 + entries from an encyclopedia, dictionary, or almanac
- AllRefer.com Extensive info from trusted sources on over 100,000 articles. Divided into topics such as earth & environment, history, literature & arts, health & medicine etc. Each section includes biographies.
- Who’s Alive and Who’s Dead Birth and death date if dead, Status – alive/dead, if dead, age at death.
- Gale Biographies Biographies of significant African-American individuals
- PHMC Good discussion of African Americans in PA but no individual biographies
- Gale Hispanic Heritage Biographies Biographies of significant Hispanic individuals.First Ladies Information on First Ladies from the Whitehouse.Gov.Founding Fathers Over 100 biographies of signers of the Declaration, Articles of Confederation and U.S. Constitution.
- From Revolution to Reconstruction This area contains data regarding historical persons related to American History.
- National Gallery Hall of Presidents Portraits of the presidents, dates and a short description of the president’s term of office. From U.S. Smithsonian Institution.
- Presidents of the U.S. Information on Presidents from the Whitehouse.Gov.British Rulers From very ancient British chieftains to Elizabeth II.
- Congressional Biographical dictionary U. S. Congress 1774 to the present.
- Rulers – heads of states of all countries Birth and death dates, biographies - going back to 1700. Includes heads of international organizations, foreign ministers and religious leaders.
- Their Stamp on History Biographies of people who have appeared on postage stamps.
- People in the Middle Ages From the history Link 101 network.
- BBC Historic Figures BBC biographies of important historical people.
- Art Cyclopedia Search by artists, art movements, subject, or nationality.
- AllRefer.com Art and architecture related articles including biographiesCeleb Station celebrities
- Rock Bands Searchable site for rock bands from Thinkquest.org
- All Music Guide Search by artist, album, song, style or label. Detailed biographies, discographies, ratings, similiar artists. Although the emphasis is on available albums there are out-of-print titles as well.
- Musicmoz Metasearch site looks through billions of web pages for information on artists or band, song title, or album.
- Pop Subculture Biographies of “influential individuals on underground culture”
- Poets from Gale Biographies Biographies of famous poets
- Masters of Photography Biographical articles and photographsWho Named It? Biographies of people that have diseases named after them
- Famous Coal Crackers – Famous sons and daughters of the Coal Region
- Famous People From netshare.com
- Catholics in history From New AdventSaints and Angels from the Catholic Church
- Catholic Online: Saints and Angels Eric Weisstein’s World of Scientific Biography
- 16th and 17th Centuries This catalog is a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries with vital facts about each individual and their contributions to science. Information is concise and very well organized
- 4000 years of Women in Science Lengthy collection of biographical profiles of women scientists through the ages. Collected by the University of Alabama.Gale Biographies Biographies of significant women throughout history
- Jewish Women’s Archive Searchable site for Jewish womenLibrary of Congress American Memory Web site A gateway to the Library of Congress resources for the study of Women’s history and culture in the United States
- Women of the Century Short biographies