Books
Browse the 921s by your subject’s last name and the 920s in the Reference section of the library.
eBooks
Databases
A list of passwords for remote use of databases is available in the library.
Salem History is a far-reaching view of history, offering worldwide coverage of important men and women in all areas of achievement. This database is the online version of our Great Lives from History reference sets (found in the R 920s).
Student Resources In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. Includes primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
ABC-CLIO Databases feature biographies of thousands interesting and important men and women — contemporary and historical– from around the world, with images, links to related articles and suggestions for further reading.
Encyclopedia Britannica provides new and continually updated journal articles, primary-source material, multimedia (90,000 images, videos, and audio clips), links to 129,000 expert websites, and ebooks.
Web Sites
Use the Search Engines in the right-hand column to find high-quality, expert-selected web sites.
Sweet Search Biographies offers profiles and outstanding search results for thousands of famous-or infamous-people from many walks of life, professions and countries, spanning many centuries.
Great Athletes of the 20th Century
The Galileo Project (biographies of scientists)
Literature Network Author Index
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophers
European Graduate School (biographies of philosophers)
Index of Biographies, St. Andrew’s University
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Hall of Black Achievement Gallery
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
New Advent (biographies of popes)
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Photo: “Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers and founding board member of the feminist Majority Foundation, during the Feminist Expo 2000 in Baltimore.” Hispanic American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the United States, edited by Sonia Benson, 3rd ed., Gale, 2003. Student Resources in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ2210061215/SUIC?u=bulldogs&xid=2921eb12. Accessed 20 Mar. 2018.
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