BIOGRAPHIES
LAPL Databases
- African American Experience
- Over 400 references, scholarly works, primary documents and papers, photographs, audio clips, maps and over 4,000 slave narratives explore their history and contemporary culture in the United States. Includes a timeline and lesson plans.
Electronic Resource of the Month, Feb. 2010
- Biography In Context
- Covers the world's most influential people, merging reference content with periodicals and multimedia, allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, keyword and full text.
Electronic Resource of the Month, February 2011
- Education & Homework Gateway
- A gateway to links, databases, eBooks, book lists and other resources for Education and Homework Help.
- Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgo
- La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos está organizada de modo que los estudiantes puedan encontrar información rápida y fácilmente.
- Farewell to Manzanar
- The Farewell to Manzanr portal accesses the Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946, Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers, Perspectives on Day-to Day Life: Personal Justice Denied, and Public Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment, 1981. Additionally the portal links to Japanese-American information from a variety of reference sources and details the author, Jeanne Houston, biography.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (Reference eBooks)
- A collection of reference eBooks on a wide variety of topics. Portions of the books can be downloaded onto eReader devices.
- Junior Edition (Gale)
- Periodical database designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, government, sports and more.
- Latino American Experience
- Over 200 volumes of content, from encyclopedias to biographies, and primary documents dating from pre-Colonial civilizations that explore their history and contemporary culture in the United States. Includes a timeline, images, maps, and lesson plans.
Electronic Resource of the Month, May 2010
- Literature Resource Center
- Broad range of subject content containing criticisms, biographies, primary sources, reviews, and multimedia on writers and works around the world.
- Marquis Biographies Online
- Up-to-the-minute biographies of leaders and achievers from around the world in the areas of business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government, entertainment and more. Access to all biographies that have appeared in 24 Marquis Who's Who print titles since 1985, and Who Was Who in America volumes from1607-1985.
- Something About the Author
- Complete series on the lives and careers of popular and significant authors and illustrators of books for children and teens.
- World Book Encyclopedia
- Offers information on a range of topics.
Biography Websites
- African American Scientists and Inventors
- Famous African American scientists and inventors before and after the civil war.
- American Presidency
- Short history of the US Presidency, along with biographical sketches and portraits of all the presidents to date. From the official White House site.
- Any Day in History
- Enter month and day to see who was born or died on that day. Can also select events by year and month.
- Biographical Dictionary
- Very brief 1-3 line bios of notable people from ancient to modern times. Has links to other bio sites. It is searchable.
- Biography.Com
- Searchable site with over 20K of short bios on various people from antiquity to the present.
- Celebration of Women Writers
- Collection of bios of selected women writers searchable by name, date, and country.
- Inventor's Hall of Fame
- Has bios of mostly 19th & 20th century inventors in America who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. . It is searchable by name and invention.
- Learning About Leonardo Da Vinci
- Experience this interactive, resource rich, visually compelling and intellectually stimulating site... Your hosts are students from John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx and Sweden producing a multimedia learning environment.
- Literature Resource Center
- Contains biographical and bibliographic information about authors, their works, literary movements and themes. It is searchable. NOTE: by GaleNet may need password.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
- Collection of his papers, sermons, and speeches. Also has articles about and by him, as well as biographical information.
- Masters of Photography
- Selected modern photographers with bios, samples of their works, links to galleries and articles.
- U.S. Supreme Court Justices
- A general site about the Supreme Court, its history and decisions both past and present. It has links to bios of past and present Justices as well as other information about their decisions and the Court in general.
- Women Mathematicians
- List of selected women mathematicians searchable by name or date.
