Biography Resources

Biography Resources Updated 1/26/04

Provided by the TV program, Biography, this site features thousands of excellent, brief biographies of people who have left their mark on history.

Said to contain over 18,000 records, containing brief bits of information about notable people from ancient times to the present day.

Search the online version of Encarta to find biographies of a wide range of people.

Information on the lives of approximately 50 women who have been famous. Brief, but useful.

Black History Information By Month, and Black History Events and People are two main areas available at this site.

Essays about the famous people of the 20th Century, from the pages of TIME Magazine.

Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. Includes people of many ethnic groups involved in or related to the Civil Rights Movement of the Sixties and later.

Interesting collection of online biographies, gathered according to the webmaster's opinion of "people whose ideas on how and where the world is - and should be - evolving - are [still] on the cutting edge." Includes links to books or writings by the biographee, as well as additional links.

Women are, and always have been, scientists. This site lists over 125 names from our scientific and technical past. They are all women! This site grew out of the public talks given by Dr. Sethanne Howard, currently with NASA.

The Papers of George Washington was established in 1969 at the University of Virginia, under the joint auspices of the University and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, to publish a complete edition of Washington's correspondence. Letters written to Washington as well as letters and documents written by him will eventually be published in the complete edition that will consist of approximately 85 volumes.

America has never forgotten Benjamin Franklin because he did both. He lived these words of wisdom by writing as much as he possibly could and by doing even more. He became famous for being a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher, a musician, and an economist. Today, we honor Ben Franklin as one of our Founding Fathers and as one of America's greatest citizens.

Resources on the Internet about the life of one of the most famous Americans of the 20th Century.

This is a home page for miscellaneous materials relating to the culture of the Mediterranean world in late antiquity (roughly 200-700 C.E.). Some of it is organized for the benefit of instruction and there will be from time to time links of interest principally to the students professor who prepares this page, but there are also substantial materials of general interest.

1492. Columbus. The date and the name provoke many questions related to the linking of very different parts of the world, the Western Hemisphere and the Mediterranean. What was life like in those areas before 1492? What spurred European expansion? How did European, African and American peoples react to each other? What were some of the immediate results of these contacts? This site addresses such questions by examining the rich mixture of societies coexisting in five areas of this hemisphere before European arrival. It then surveys the polyglot Mediterranean world at a dynamic turning point in its development.

A virtual museum The current exhibit displays images and information relating to Leonardo da Vinci.

Various people-oriented links gathered by one of the masters of the Web, John December.