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1. the histories of individual lives, considered as a branch of literature. an account of a person's life, written or told by another; life story.
2. biographical writings in general
3.
a life history (as of a coin)
This site on African-American history contains the text of significant speeches. There's also biographical information about famous African-Americans.
Author: African Genesis (webmaster@afgen.com)
American Women's History: A Research Guide
"American Women's History is designed to assist serious researchers, such as history professors, independent scholars, graduate students, and possibly upper-division undergraduates. Librarians who assist these researchers may also want to become familiar with the guide. American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources."
Author: Ken Middleton (kmiddlet@frank.mtsu.edu)
"This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords."
Author: (biographer@s9.com)
Official site of A&E's Biography television series. Includes the searchable text of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
Author: A&E Television Networks
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
"This site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers and others. "
Author: Danuta Bois (dbois@distinguishedwomen.com)
The Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
Major features include a timeline of important events, brief biographies of famous African-Americans, articles on Events and Institutions and Eras in Black History. Includes a study guide for teachers and students, a bibliography, and film clips and audio recordings. Also contains a separate section on the Harlem Renaissance.
Author: Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia of Women's History
Biographical entries for famous women written by K-12 students.
Author: Michelle Gaines
Famous Adoptees and Foster Children
"Biographical directory of influential and famous persons who were adopted or spent time being raised by people other than their biological parents."
Author: Roger Ridley Fenton (rridley@fenton60.freeserve.co.uk)
Information about "Where everybody who was anybody is buried..." Includes photos. It's searchable by name, location, birth dates and death dates, and "claim to fame."
Author: Jim Tipton (jim@findagrave.com )
Provides a biography of all 265 Popes of the Roman Catholic Church from 32 AD to the present. Includes a detailed entry for Pope John Paul II with links to online speeches and writings.
Author: New Advent Catholic Super site (knight@knight.org)
"Lives, the Biography Resource is a collection of thousands of annotated links to biography sites. It is cataloged by individual names and biography collections (geographical, professions, Civil War, etc.), and includes materials such as journals, diaries, letters, memoirs, narratives, image collections, biographical dictionaries, critical biography and more. The site is searchable."
Author: Ken Lanxner (klanxner@home.com)
A very informative web site that brings to life those that have won the Nobel Prize with movies and audio of speeches. While this site is a work in progress, it has the history of how the prize began, as well as information on all of the categories that the prize is given and some of the winners. It has great graphics, is easy to navigate, and has a wealth of information. The plug-ins Real Audio and Shockwave are needed to take advantage of the site's full capabilities but you can get some good information without the plugins too. This site may have a slow download time depending on one's computer.
Author: International Management Group, TWI Interactive (info@nobelchannel.com)
A listing of Nobel Peace Prize winners from 1901-1996 and what they won for. Provides links to other sites about the winners, when available.
Author: The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Impressive collection of information about all of the past Nobel Laureates, organized by prize and year, or searchable. Entries include brief biographical information plus links to related Internet sites.
Author: Almaz Enterprises (webmaster@almaz.com)
A Short Biography of Jean Piaget