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Internet Links: Biography
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African-American Women
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
Archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of African-American women.
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.
Biographies
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002076/Biographies.html?tqskip=1
Biographies of women from Florence Nightingale to Hillary Rodham Clinton
Biographies of Notable Medieval and Renaissance Women
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_list_medieval.htm
Biographies of "notable women who lived about 500 through about 1600 -- including the Middle Ages, the European Renaissance and the Tudor period in British history".
Biographies of Western Women
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/pages/women.html#Bio
Biographies of Calamity Jane, Dale Evans, Annie Oakley, Emily Carr and more.
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
Biographical information on more than 125 women mathematicians.
Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/
Search or browse 25,000 biographies of notable personalities from antiquity to the present.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/chh/bio/
Gale Research's site provides fifty biographies of notable Hispanic American women and men.
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.
History of Mathematics
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/
The archive contains the history of math in more than 60 categories and biographies of more than 1,400 mathematicians.
Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com
Musical Artist Search
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/
National Inventors Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp
Hundreds of inventions and inventors, biographies, pictures, indexes of inventions and inventors.
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.
National Women's Hall of Fame
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php
Paragraph biographies of almost 200 remarkable women.
Today in Sports
http://sports.yahoo.com/
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.
Women's History Month Profiles
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/womenhist/program.html
Profiles of famous women, from Indira Gandhi to Martha Graham, from the History Channel
Women's History Month: Biographies
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/index.htm
Biographies of significant women throughout time.