Biographies, news stories, images, videos of thousands of people. Search for people by name, occupation, gender, nationality, and more.
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Articles, obituaries, and books for 300,000 public figures (writers, artists, sports figures, politicians, religious leaders, scientists, educators, military leaders, business people, and more). 1946-1983.
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Comprehensive index to over 11 million biographical sketches in current and historic reference books. Covers contemporary and historical figures.
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Illustrated collection of 50,000 written biographies of men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past. 4th century BC to 2000.
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Over 120,000 biographies of the important living scientists in the physical, biological, and related sciences.
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Profiles influential and controversial figures in the Middle East and North Africa who came to prominence during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
6 volume set of biographical information on 4,000 notable and deceased North Carolinians. In print at Davis and Wilson libraries and online. Search all online volumes together.
Using scanned images of actual census records, called "census schedules," you can search by name and limit to year and location. Decennial censuses from 1790 to 1820 and from 1860 to 1930 are included, though not necessarily complete at this time. You can also search for family information contained in 24,000 books and 2.1 million articles. Microfilm versions of "census schedules" for Southern States are available in Davis Microforms Collection, 1-2327.
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Includes full-text of African American National Biography, with 4,000 entries profiling famous, infamous, and little-known figures in African American history.
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Extended profiles of 54 men and women who have shaped advertising from the nineteenth century to the present, including copywriters, empire builders, and theorists.
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Each entry contains biographical information about a writer or editor who either wrote advocacy journalism or edited one or more publications that featured such material. Among those profiled here are William F. Buckley Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Germaine Greer, Pete Hamill, Karl Marx, H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Wilfrid Sheed, Gloria Steinem, and Jonathan Swift.
Biographies on more than 600 figures, covering the career paths, business achievements, leadership styles, business strategies and impact of Fortune 500 and Global 500 corporate leaders.