Biography

General Biographical Resources

American Writers: A Journey Through History
www.americanwriters.org

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp

Biographical Dictionary
www.s9.com/biography

Biography-Center
www.biography-center.com

Biography Magazine
www.biography.com

Documenting the American South
docsouth.unc.edu

Current Biographies, Famous First Facts, Short Story Index
hwwilsonweb.com

Faces and Biographies - Florida Civic Ed
www.firn.edu/civiced/games/faces/index.html

First Ladies' Gallery
www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies

GALE: Biography Resource Center
infotrac.galegroup.com

GOOGLE: Biography
directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Biography

The HistoryMakers
thehistorymakers.com

Innovative Lives
www.invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/ilives

The Lemelson Center for Study of Invention & Innovation
(Smithsonian Institution)

Jazz Artists in Harlem
www.harlem.org

Jewish Heroes & Heroines in America
www.fau.edu/library/brodytoc.htm

Jewish Virtual Library: Biography
www.us-israel.org/jsource/bios.html

List of Popes
www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm

Native American Authors
www.ipl.org/div/natam

Nobel Prize Internet Archive
www.almaz.com

PBS - Biographies
www.pbs.org/history/history_biographies.html

PBS - The West
www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people

Presidents of the U.S.
www.potus.com

Pulitzer Prize Winners
www.pulitzer.org

SCHOLASTIC: Children’s Author Studies
www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks...

The Time 100: The Most Important People of the 20th Century
www.time.com/time/time100

Who’s Who in the Federal Government
exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/whos.html

Who2: Links About Athletes & Historical Figures
www.who2.com

African-Americans

African Biography on the Internet
www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/afrbio.html

Biography.com Celebrates Black History Month
www.biography.com/blackhistory

Black Mathematicians
www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/index.html

Martin Luther King Jr.
www.seattletimes.com/mlk

Marin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
www.stanford.edu/group/king

Prominent African Americans
www.aawc.com/paa.html

Arts & Culture

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/

Library of Congress: The African American Mosaic
lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Race & Society

The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier
www.imh.org/imh/buf/buftoc.html

Civil Rights Timeline
www.africanamericans.com/CivilRights.htm

National Geographic Society: Underground Railroad
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad

Negro League Baseball
www.negroleaguebaseball.com

Women

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19

Celebration of Women Writers
digital.library.upenn.edu/women

Distinguished Women of Past & Present
www.distinguishedwomen.com

Jewish Women’s Archive
www.jwa.org/main.htm

National Women’s Hall of Fame
www.greatwomen.org

National Women’s History Project
www.nwhp.org

Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/script-intro.html

Women in History
www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/figures.htm

Women Mathematicians
www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/alpha.htm

Women’s History
womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_list.htm