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Webliography : Biographical Resources

Busse Library provides these websites and titles for students and faculty seeking biographical information. Books listed here are a sampling available in the library and elsewhere. Note #25 in the MMC Notebook handout series has tips on finding biographical information.

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Gateways to Biographical Resources -- Biography : Women -- Biography : African Americans -- Biography: Science and Business -- Biography: Humanities and Arts -- Biography: Miscellaneous -- Busse Library Resources

Gateways to Biographical Resources

A&E's Biography

Ancestry.com : Genealogy and Family History Records

Biographical Dictionary

Biography Center

Freeality Internet Search : Online Biographies

The History Net : Where History Lives on the Web

HyperHistory Online

Lives, the Biographical Resource -- directory ofbiographical sites

National Archives Online Exhibit Hall

National Portrait Gallery

TIME: Person of the Year -- comprehensive listing

TIME 100: People of the Century -- the 100 most important people of the 20th century

Biography: Women

Biography: African Americans

Biography: Science and Business

Academy of Achievement
National Inventors Hall of Fame
The Nobel Prize: Nobelprize.org -- full biographies of all winners

Biography: Humanities and Arts

Biography: Miscellaneous

Find-a-Grave
Internet Library for Librarians: Biographies
L.A. Grim Society -- the dark history of Los Angeles

Busse Library Resources

Dunford, Penny. Biographical dictionary of women artists in Europe / c1990. N6757. D86 1990 Ref

Elliott, Clark A. Biographical dictionary of American science / 1979. Q141. E37 Ref

Gale Research Company. Biography almanac. c1981-. CT104. B5 Ref

Gowing, Lawrence. A biographical dictionary of artists / c1995. N40. B53 1995, Ref

Joseph, Bea. Biography index. Z5301. B5 Ref

Reuss, Francis X. Biographical encyclopedia of the catholic hierarchy / 1898. BX4670.R4x

Sheehy, Noel. Biographical dictionary of psychology / 1997. BF109. A1 B56 1997, Ref

United States Congress. Biographical dictionary of the United States Congress / 1989. JK1010. A5 1989 Ref

Mount Mercy College -- 1330 Elmhurst Drive NE -- Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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