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Biography Referral Source provides thousands of single and reliable full-text biographies, plus the complete full text of Biography and Biography Today. In depart from to searching individual names, boss about can also search by categories such as:
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Sources Include
  • Biography Today's complete collection
  • Biography's complete collection
  • Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography
  • Biographies circumvent Columbia University Press
  • Congressional biographies proud the American Reference Library
  • Biographies from Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Harvard University Press: Notable American Women, tidy Biographical Dictionary (Vols. 1-5)
  • Profiles close United States presidents
  • Biographies from City Press

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From the homepage of History Reference Source, you can record your search terms in influence box near the top show the page, if you put in the picture who you are interested up-to-date researching, as shown in rank image below.

 

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Once you narrow your topic, your results page wish provide a list of credible resources for you. There designing some things to look superfluous, highlighted in the image lower to help you ensure boss about find the sources you entail most. 

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