400 Years of Women in Science
Site lists over 125 names of women from our scientific and technical
past, including inventors, scholars and writers as well as
mathematicians and astronomers. Find biographies and photographs.
AmericanPresident.org
From the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia,
the nation’s leading research institute for the study of the American
presidency. Includes biographies of the presidents, each first lady and
cabinet member, and
timelines detailing significant events in the lives of each
administration.
Biographical Directory of the United States
Congress
Biographies of senators, representatives, and other elected officials
from 1774 to the present. Find short biographies and guides to research
collections that hold the person's papers, as well as bibliographies for
each member.
biography-center
A searchable, multi-lingual biographical directory. This site indexes
and provides links to biographies available from other Web sites.
Biography.com
Official site of A&E's Biography television series. Includes the
searchable text of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical
Encyclopedia.
Biographical Dictionary
Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world
from ancient times to the present day. Search by birth years, death
years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works,
achievements, and other keywords.
Lives, the Biography Resource
Collection of annotated links to biography sites. Includes materials
such as journals, diaries, letters, memoirs, narratives, image
collections, biographical dictionaries, critical biography and more.
Nom de Guerre: The Real People's Real Name
Resource of Pseudonyms
Site contains "the definitive" list of the real and/or full names for
hundreds of celebrities, historical figures, writers, and fictional and
non-fictional characters. Entries are listed alphabetically by
pseudonym, and some contain brief biographical information.
Their Stamp on History
Explores the lives of important historical people through their pictures
on postage stamps.
TIME: The Most Important People of the Century
TIME's take on the 100 most important people of the 20th century.
Provides profiles and related stories from the TIME archive.
Miller
Center-Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive
Features audio files of Presidential speeches, secretly recorded White
House conversations, and oral histories regarding the American
presidency.
