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American Dictionary of National Biography Online
'This is a comprehensive, content-rich, attractive, and unique database. Summing Up: Essential.' - A.J. Dutka, Broward Community College, US
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- Updated quarterly with new or revised biographies along with new bibliographical resources and links.
- Wide range of search options: Everything from quick searches to more advanced custom searching can be done with speed and ease search for Lithuanian musicians who made their name in America, female lawyers born between 1900 and 1930, and religious leaders and clergy who died between 1875 and 1880.
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The American National Biography Online is the premier source of information about over 19,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. With sophisticated search capabilities, lively and detailed articles, internal cross-references, up-to-date bibliographies, thousands of photographs and illustrations, and links to external web resources, ANB Online is likely to induce compulsive browsing. (Wall Street Journal)
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From missionaries to musicians, social workers to statisticians, cowboys to chemists, and vikings to astronauts, the portraits in ANB Online combine to reflect the rich diversity of American life from pre-colonial times onwards.
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"This is a comprehensive, content-rich, attractive, and unique database. Summing Up: Essential." - A.J. Dutka, Broward Community College, US "Ten years in preparation, the authoritative 24-volume American National Biography, a 1999 Dartmouth Medal winner, is a masterpiece of scholarly distillation. Its electronic counterpart... represents the benchmark for online scholarly reference tools... Erudite but accessible, this stellar scholarly undertaking is for anyone from the informed general reader to students from middle school on up. Academic users... should warmly welcome it." - Library Journal "Offers a single, authoritative, current resource of high quality... [for] every academic and public
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American Library Association's Dartmouth Medal for best reference of the year
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