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American Presidents: Life Portraits
http://www.americanpresidents.org
This web site, created for the television series, contains a complete video archive of all American Presidents: Life Portraits programming, plus additional resources.
AskART.com
http://askart.com/
Over 23,000 North American artists -- painters, sculptors, and illustrators -- are listed in this searchable resource.
Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/
Includes more than 28,000 brief biographies of notable men and women covering ancient times to the present day.
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
http://bioguide.congress.gov/
Biographical information for all individuals who have served in the United States Congress and the Continental Congress.
Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/
Search or browse 25,000 biographies of notable personalities from antiquity to the present.
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/
Biographical information collected from sources all over the Internet, supplemented with excerpts from Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia.
Great Architects
http://www.greatbuildings.com
This website documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings etc.
National Women's Hall of Fame
http://www.greatwomen.org/
Portraits and profiles of the close to two hundred notable women of the United States (living and deceased) inducted into the Hall of Fame since its founding in 1969.
Women in World History
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com
A wealth of information about women rulers, female heroes, and women in the first millenium. Quotes and lesson plans are also included.
Women Who Changed the 20th Century
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001621/
Learn more about Susan B. Anthony, Mary McLeod Bethune, Rachel Carson, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Sally Ride, and Eleanor Roosevelt at this site created by fifth grade students.
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