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Biography & History
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Biography Resource Center

The Biography Resource Center combines biographies from over 130 sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, More

Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text biographical articles from more than 265 magazines.Hide

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes biographical dictionaries and who's whos, subject encyclopedias, and literary criticism. It also acts as More

an index to other indexes. BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual.Hide

Facts.com - World Almanac Encyclopedia

Facts On File Biographies of important personages both past and present.

History Study Center

History Study Center provides digitized primary and secondary sources with documents and articles organized under widely-studied topics, More

with reference works, images, video clips and links to 2,000 Web sites.Hide

Newsbank: America's Newspapers

Search The Wall Street Journal, and several other nationally known magazines and journals.

Newsbank: America's Newspapers

The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers including: the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, More

the Daily Herald, the Glenview Announcements, the New York Times, major metro Newspapers, and local newspapers throughout Illinois.Hide

OCLC FirstSearch

A gateway to multiple databases for articles in business, management, science, humanities, education, health and medicine including ArticleFirst, ClasePeriodica, ECO, ERIC and Medline.

OCLC FirstSearch

Find specific online publications by title or by subject.

SIRS Knowledge Source

Excellent database for student assignments on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political, and global issues. Full text More

articles archived from 1989 to present many with graphics, charts, maps, and diagrams.Hide