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- American National Biography
- Full text biographies on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. You'll find profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the well-known to the infamous to the obscure.
- Biography And Genealogy Master Index
- Index to sources of biographical information.
(Available in the Library and C.O.D. Network only)
- CQ Historic Documents
- Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents Series now contains 32 volumes of primary sources. Each volume includes approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
- Chicago Tribune (1849-1986) Proquest Historical Newspapers
- Digital image of every issue of the Chicago Tribune, cover-to-cover. Use this database to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. By utilizing software enhancements, the original microfilm image can frequently be improved for a cleaner, more readable image. And the date range searching tool lets users search on, before, or between two dates.
The Chicago Tribune Historical database covers the years 1847-1985. For full text articles published between 1986-Present, use the Chicago Tribune online located on the Library's Article Databases page.
- Classical World, Who's Who In The
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- Discovering Collection
- Comprised of several Discovering Program titles such as Discovering Authors, U.S. History, Science and Biography, and the entire contents of the Junior Reference Collection. Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.
- Grove Art Online
- Full-text of scholarly articles covering the visual arts from prehistory through the 1990s. Links to images of artistic works and to selected Web sites.
- Grove Music Online
- Includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
- Literature Resource Center
- Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies and criticism of authors from every age and literary discipline. The Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
- Local And Family History, The Oxford Dictionary Of
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- Marquis Who's Who
- Includes 1.3 million American and International notable persons from all walks of life and study. Also includes Who's Who in American History.
(Available in the Library and C.O.D. Network only)
- Marquis Who's Who--American Art
- This biographical database includes information on nearly 14,000 of America's most notable artists, curators, art educators and collectors.
(Available in the Library and C.O.D. Network only)
- Marquis Who's Who--American History
- This database provides biographical information on American historical figures from 1667 to the present.
- Marquis Who's Who--American Politics
- This database provides biographical information on 36,000 of today's political leaders and includes important politicians from the last decade
- Oxford Reference Online
- A collection of reference books from the Oxford Press. Searchable by subject, keyword and by title of work.
- Popes, The Oxford Dictionary Of
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- Scientists, A Dictionary Of
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- Twentieth Century, Who's Who In The
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