BIOGRAPHY
TC Library's Subscription Databases and the World Wide Web offer a large number of valuable sites to those biographies in any field. We have gathered some of these here and have arranged them into two major categories. Click on the hyperlink to go to that category. Databases and Websites: A Classified Library. For books and other materials (print and electronic) in the Library collection, be sure to check our catalog.
BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER + THE COMPLETE MARQUIS WHO'S WHO, via Infotrac II, includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for world leaders, artists, sports heroes, business people, etc. based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who, find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED as a first stop.
CUSTOM NEWSPAPERS, from Gale on Infotrac II, provides full-text articles from 40+ U.S. and a few British dailies, including their business sections. The New York Times, Washington Post, and Nashville Tennessean are among the titles indexed. Particularly valuable for students seeking contemporary biographies.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, the world's first commercial on-line encyclopedia is available to members of the Tusculum College Community. Source of general biographical information from throughout history. back to top
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES comes via the ACA Central Library; in addition to an A-Z encyclopedia, the site also includes a glossary and a database of 3,000 peer-reviewed and weekly-updated articles. Helpful for those interested in the history of life science, conservation, and involved scientists.
FINDARTICLES.COM is a free index to full-text magazines which appear on the web (including a few not covered by the subscription databases noted here, e.g., History Today), is, surprisingly, overlooked on the links pages of most libraries . Not to be taken lightly, it is recommended.
General Business File InternationAL, from the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) on Infotrac I, provides researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. Valuable for students seeking biographical information on economic, communications, and technological personnel.
GROVE DICTIONARY OF ART ONLINE provides online access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with constant additions of new material and updates, plus extensive image links and search capabilities. Look here for painters and other artists.
GROVE MUSIC ONLINE is an integrated online music resource that includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Profiles of all sorts of musicians are included.
INFOTRAC ONEFILE, from TEL on Infotrac I, is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of biographies from politicians to sports heroes, scientists, feminists and entertainers. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily. May be employed with the more academic EXPANDED ACADEMIC ASAP. . back to top
LEGALTRAC, Contains recent obituaries and biographical information of those in the legal profession. Use a keyword search when looking for biographical information.
LITERATURE RESOURCE CENTER, from Gale on Infotrac II, provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Check here for writers from Cicero to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
THE STATESMAN'S YEARBOOK is an excellent and current resource for government information from around the world. Includes biographical information of political leaders and those involved in world government. back to top
BIOGRAPHY WEBSITES: A CLASSIFIED LIBRARY
Introduction
In order to avoid a lengthy list of links, we have broken
this site up into a subjective series of alphabetically-arranged major
categories. Beyond our effort, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you visit
The World Wide Web Virtual Library
History: Central Links Catalogue; this site, originally developed at
the University of Kansas, is the most important for historians and
social scientists on the entire Web. The WWWVL
also contains biographies in other areas scattered around its topical
or alphabetical listings. Another source of value is Social
Science Information Gateway; resources here include articles, reports,
bibliographic databases, organizations, etc.
Biographical Dictionary,
provides profiles for 28,000 people...
Biography.Com reviews the
accomplishments of 25,000 individuals...
Conversations
With History is an extraordinary site in which diplomats, statesmen,
and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians;
writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists talk about their
lives and their work; they reminisce about their participation in great
events and share their perspectives on the past, while reflecting
on what the future may hold. These interview transcripts span the globe
and include discussion of political, economic, military, legal, cultural,
and social issues shaping our world. At the heart of each interview is
a focus on individuals and ideas that make a difference.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED,
this site covers the period from 1982 to date...
Infoplease Biography,
details
30,000 lives and has a search engine...
Lives, The Biography Resource...
Nobel e-Museum History of the Nobel
prize the foundation and biographies of its winners.
People
Index, lifelines of important persons from date of birth to date of death.
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Who2
,
Who2 gives you the hard facts you're most
likely looking for: birth and death dates, famous works, notorious trivia. Then
-- in case that's not enough -- we sift the Web and pick out the four best sites
for additional detail. Includes classic
authors, movie
stars, famous
frauds,
kings and
queens, mythical
gods, cartoon
dogs, criminals, as well as music groups with cross
references.
Ain't I a Woman?
Full text of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
Biographical
Profiles of Some Important 19th Century African Americans
Influential
African Americans of the 20th Century biographies of prominent, 20th
century African Americans.
The
Negro is Your Brother, a landmark document now known as 'Letter
from a Birmingham Jail," was a handwritten response from jail by Dr. King to a public statement
issued by white religious leaders of the South." Provided by Stanford
University's Martin Luther King Jr.'s Papers project: www.kingpapers.org
Artists Index provides
biographies of over 8,000 registered artists; choose by period, media,
or by artist's last name.
Classical
Composers Database includes brief biography, links to music samples
and links to more information about each composer.
Composer
Master Index allows you to find biographies of performers
either alphabetically or to search for them.
In-Depth Studies
of Artists and Works of Art from the National Gallery of Art;
has several online exhibitions and information about artists.
The Mozart Project compositions,
biography, and more.
Painters
alphabetical, chronolgical or geographical indexes of painters whose
art was chosen from eighteen national museums in France.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum Biographies of inductees and contributors to rock and roll.
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The Ballplayers
provides
profiles, with bibliographies, for approximately 10,000 big league baseball
players, umpires, and executives.
Current
Biography Exerpts online exerpts of athlete biographies from Current
Biography
Yearbook.
ESPN's
Top North American Athletes of the Century profiles the best 100 athletes
of the 20th century.
Pro
Football Hall of Fame Inductees information on all the inductees enshrined
at Canton, Ohio, annually..
NBA Player Profiles offers
stats, video and audio clips, news articles and more about most NBA
players.
USA
Basketball Women's Bios from USA Basketball, "a non-profit organization
and the national governing body for men's and women's basketball in the
United States."
ELAC
Playwrights provides biographies of some major playwrights.
Yahoo's
List of Authors on the Internet allows you to esearch an author and
his or her books.
FOREIGN KINGS AND RULERS back to top
The British
Monarchy, 1042-1952 provides links to sites for kings and queens...
British Prime
Ministers, 1760-1960 is a series of links
Egyptian Kings
features brief biographies of Egyptian kings from 2920 BC to 565 AD.
France's
Kings of the 18th Century includes both brief and indepth biographies
of these kings.
Imperium Romanum: An Online
Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors is arranged by period or alphabetical.
Kings and
Queens of Europe permits you to choose the region and then the era
to find out information about European royalty.
Medieval People provides
biographies of medieval artists, musicians, authors, religious figures,
royalty, nobility,
and more.
Rulers notes
current rulers of the world indexed by country.
Celebrating
Hispanic Heritage: Biographies provides detailed biographies of accomplished,
successful and famous
Hispanic people.
Famous Hispanics
in the World and History is an alphabetical list of biographies
of Hispanic achievers of all fields from around the globe.
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Links to
North American Indian Biography Sites provides links to hundreds
of biographies of Native Americans.
Powerful
[Native American] People--Biographies of historical figures (e.
g., Chief Joseph, Tecumseh, and Sequoyah) and contemporary Native Americans
(like Wilma Mankiller and Ben Nighthorse Campbell).
PRESIDENTS OF THE U.S. see THE UNITED STATES
Catalog
of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries includes
birth and death dates, nationality, education, religion, area of scientific
study and much more for more than 600 scientists.
Eric Weisstein's
World of Scientific Biography, includes a thousand references with
a search engine...
Indexes
of Biographies is a comprehensive guide to mathematicians.
Physics
Around the World: Famous Scientists provides profiles of famous scientists.
World of Scientific
Biography; this site includes an encyclopedia of scientists' biographies.
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American Presidents:
Life Portraits...
Biographical Directory of
the United States Congress, 1774-to date...
Founding
Fathers, provides info on all 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention
of 1787...
From Revolution to Reconstruction:
Biographies, arranged alphabetically...
Lives, the Biography Resource
bills
itself as the largest such link-repository on the Internet...
Military Biography
Collections for leaders and also common soldiers...
Presidents provides
biographies, speeches, and writings of the presidents of the United States.
Presidents of the United
States is a detailed site from the Internet Public Library.
The
Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate) explains
the office of vice president and gives in depth biographies.
Who's
Who in American History: Civil War to Present is small, but useful...
Distinguished Women of
Past and Present, allows a search by name or subject.
National Women's Hall of Fame Over
200 biographies of women of the United States inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Notable Women Ancestors:
Womens Biographies is an exciting page offered in co-operation with
the History Channel and updated frequently...
Women
World Leaders, 1945-date, offers biographies and links.
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Revised August 17, 2007