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African-American
Biographical Database Access limited to UF students, staff, and faculty. |
1790-1950. Brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans. Contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. |
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Biography
Index Access limited to UF students, staff, and faculty. |
Cites more than 2,700 periodicals and 1,800 books, including individual and collective biographies, as well as juvenile literature. Answers questions such as: What are Stephen King's roots in horror and the supernatural? What is the political history of Nelson Mandela? |
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Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who
Access limited to UF students, staff, and faculty. |
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation gender, or combine criteria. |
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Biographical
Dictionary |
This dictionary includes more than 28,000 people from ancient times to the present. |
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Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present |
Biographical information for all individuals who have served in the United States Congress and the Continental Congress. Biographies are also included for persons who have served as delegates to Congress from the territories of the United States. |
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Biographies
Resources |
Biographical links divided into the following subcategories: (1) Artists & Architects; (2) Authors; (3) Entertainers; (4) Musicians & Composers; (5) Politicians & Rulers; and (6) Scientists & Inventors. |
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Lives,
the Biography Resource |
Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, and oral histories. Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous. |
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Online
Biographies (Freeality) |
One-page reference that has search engines for over 25 biographical databases. |