Contents:
General & World Biography
| American Biography
| Biography by Profession
| Women's Biography
| Speeches & Interviews
| PSU Libraries' Related Pages
General & World Biography
- About Famous People
- Academy of Achievement: a Museum of Living History
- African Biography on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
- AllRefer.com Reference: Biographies Related Articles [historical and by country/region]
- Biografias y Vidas [in Spanish]
- Biographical Dictionary (S9 Technologies)
- Biographies of Peacemakers (42eXplore)
- Biographies of World War II (42eXplore)
- Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) (Penn State Users Only)
- Biography-center
- Biography.com (A&E;)
- Dead People's Server
- Dictionary of World Biography [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online [contains numerous biographies published in the 18th century] (Penn State Users Only)
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (Penn State Users Only)
- HyperHistory Online: People (3000 years of world history, with biographies)
- In the First Person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives ["in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world" (from database, 1/16/2007); includes interviews] (Alexander Street Press LLC)
- Infoplease Almanac: Biography
- Jewish Virtual Library: Biography
- Newsmakers [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Nobelprize.org
- Obituaries Online [mostly Americans] (Digital History)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ["55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2003." (from website, 4/16/2007)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Portrait Gallery (UTexas)
- Time Magazine's Person of the Year, 1927-2004
- Time Magazine's Top 100: The Most Important People of the Century (20th)
- Who is Who at NATO?
- Who's Alive and Who's Dead
- Who's Who in the Classical World (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Who2? Find Famous People Fast
- World War I Biographies (42eXplore)
American Biography
Biography by Profession
Arts & Architecture:
- AllRefer.com: Reference: European Art to 1599, Biographies Articles
- AllRefer.com: Reference: European 1600 to the Present, Biographies Articles
- Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century [with video clips, biography] (PBS)
- Artist Index (WebMuseum, Paris)
- Artists' Biographies (Artnet.com: Research Library)
- AskArt.com: Biographies
- Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died between 1897 and 1947
- Dance: Biographies (Infoplease.com)
- Dictionary of Art Historians: A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art (dictionaryofarthistorians.org)
- Famous Architects (Click2Architects)
- Free to Dance [African-American dancers and choreographers' influence on modern dance; timeline and biographies] (PBS)
- Great Architects
- the-artists.org
- Leonardo da Vinci (BBC)
- Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist (Museum of Science, Boston)
- Mies in Berlin/Mies in America [Mies van der Rohe] (MoMA)
- National Geographic: Photographer Biographies
- 19th and 20th Century Art Links (Boston College)
- Photostart.com
- Pritzker Architecture Prize [includes biographies, acceptance speeches, videos of ceremonies]
- Victorian Art in Britain
Business
Education
Explorers
Government, Law, & Politics
- Abraham Lincoln Papers
- Abraham Lincoln Research Site (Roger Norton)
- AllRefer.com Reference: Law, Biographies Articles
- American President: An Online Reference Resource (UVa)
- Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
- Biographies: The Legal Philosophers, or the Jurists (Blupete.com)
- Churchill and the Great Republic (Library of Congress)
- Dictionary of Political Biography (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- From Revolution to Reconstruction...and what happened afterwards: Presidents (University of Groningen)
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799 (LOC)
- Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: Biographical Profiles [profiles of J.F. Kennedy and associates]
- LaGuardia and Wagner Archives [NYC mayors, includes LaGuardia, Wagner, Koch, and Beame] (LaGuardia City College)
- Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project (NIU)
- Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project (UCLA)
- Miller Center for Public Affairs: Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive [Real Player; presidential recordings, speeches, documents, oral histories] (UVa)
- Mr. President, Profiles of Our Nation's Leaders
- Monarchs of Britain (britannia.com)
- Oyez [Supreme Court]
- Papers of George Washington (UVa)
- Papers of John Jay [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" designee for 2003-04] (Columbia)
- Political Graveyard: A Database of Historic Cemeteries
- POTUS: Presidents of the United States [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" designee for 2003-04] (IPL)
- Presidency in History
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
- Presidents: A Reference History [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Rulers (heads of state and heads of government, de factor leaders, from 1700-; recent foreign ministers, heads of international organizations)
- Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
- Uncle Sam Who's Who in the Federal Government (UMemphis)
- United States House of Representatives
- United States Senate
- Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000 (Penn State Users Only)
History, Philosophy, & Religion:
- AllRefer.com: Reference: Philosophy and Religion, Related Articles
- Benedict XVI
- Biographies: The Philosophers (Blupete.com)
- Biographies: Political Theorists and Activists (Blupete.com)
- Byzant Biography (mystics, poets, philosophers
- Catholic Saints and Angels
- Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names (Garth Kemerling)
- Catholic Encyclopedia List of the Popes
- DMOZ: Historians
- Malaspina Great Books [a biographical database on Great Ideas]
- Malcolm X Project (Columbia)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute [includes King Papers, speeches, civil rights movement documents, King Encyclopedia, interactive timeline, a Liberation Curriculum, and other teaching resources] (Stanford)
- Online Library of Liberty: Biographical Essays
- Oxford Dictionary of Popes (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Plato and His Dialogues: Biography
- Religious Leaders (rulers.org)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Literature, Film, & Theatre:
- African Writers: Voices of Change
- AllRefer.com: Reference: Literature and the Arts Related Articles
- American Authors (Gonzaga)
- American Writers II: The 20th Century (CSpan.org)
- Authors on the Web
- Biographical Index: Internet Movie Database
- Biographies: The Classical Essayists
- Biographies: The Classical Fiction Writers (Blupete.com)
- Biographies: The Poets (Blupete.com)
- Celebrity Almanac
- Contemporary Authors (Penn State Users Only)
- Contemporary Novelists [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Contemporary Poets [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography (Penn State Users Only)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary [includes biography/chronology, quotes, bibliographies & criticism with full text of some of FSF's writings] (University of South Carolina)
- Famous Hispanic Writers
- Film Reference
- Hawthorne in Salem [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities on the Web" designee for 2003-04] (North Shore Community College)
- Index to Nordic Authors...
- ItalianAmericanWriters.com
- Library of Author Home Pages at the EPC (SUNY-Buffalo)
- Literature: Author Biographies and Writer Stories (essortment.com)
- Literature Online: Biographies (Penn State Users Only)
- Literature Post
- LitLinks (Bedford St. Martin)
- Major 21st Century Writers [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Mundo Latino: Grandes escritores [Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Julio Cortázar, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez, Rafael Alberti, José Saramago]
- Nabakov Under Glass
- Online Library of Liberty: Biographical Essays
- Paul Robeson on the Web (Princeton Public Library)
- Poets [poets.org]
- Poet's Corner: Biographies (Thomson Gale)
- Post-Colonial Studies (Emory)
- Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Reference Guide to Short Fiction [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Reference Guide to World Literature [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Sir Laurence Olivier, Official Web Site
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directores
- Something About the Author [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "illustrated biographical profiles of approximately 70 children's authors and artists,...personal life, career, writings, works in progress, adaptations, and additional sources." (description from database 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Le Web Camus
- World of Jack London (www.jacklondons.net)
- Zembla [Vladimir Nabokov] (PSU)
Mathematics, Medicine, Science, & Technology:
- Access Science: McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online: Biographies (Penn State Users Only)
- AllRefer.com: Reference: Medicine Related Articles
- AllRefer.com Reference: People: Science and Technology Related Articles
- American Men and Women of Science [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Atomicarchive.com: Biographies ["key players of the Atomic Age"]
- Biographies and Autobiographies of Chemists (www.chemdex.org)
- Biographies: Inventors of the Industrial Revolution (Blupete.com)
- Biographies of the Nuclear Age (42eXplore)
- Biographies: The Scientists (Blupete.com)
- Black Inventors, A-Z
- Darwin Correspondence Project
- Dictionary of Scientists (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Dr. John Snow (UCLA)
- Enrico Fermi and the Nuclear Chain Reaction (UChicago)
- Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
- Galileo Project: Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries
- History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology: A Culturally Affirming View (SJSU Virtual Museum)
- Index of Biographies: Mathematicians
- International Directory of Primatology: People (UW-Madison)
- Inventor of the Week Archive (Lemelson-MIT Program)
- National Academies (Science, Engineering, Medicine)
- National Academies Press
- National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Natural History Biographies [includes Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir Hans Sloane, Joseph Banks, Richard Owen, Samuel Wilberforce, Thomas Henry Huxley, William MacGillivray, Joseph Wolf, and Gilbert White] (Natural History Museum, London)
- SACNAS Biography Project: Profiles of Chicano/Latino and Native American scientists
- Scientists/Inventors in Electricity (42eXplore)
- Windows to the Universe: History and People
- Women Physicians: 1850s to 1070s (Drexel)
Military:
Music:
Social Sciences:
Sports:
Women's Biography
Speeches & Interviews
- Abraham Lincoln Online: Speeches and Writings
- American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election (Library of Congress)
- American Presidency Project (UCSB)
- American Rhetoric: Online Speech Bank
- American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches [20th century]
- American Routes [radio interviews with hundreds of the greats from the American music scene]
- BBC Four: Interviews [A-Z: actors, architects, broadcasters, cartoonists, composers, dancers, filmmakers, musicians, painters, philosophers, photographers, playwrights, poets, political activists, religious thinkers, scientists, sculptors, sports personalities]
- Between the Lines: Interviews with Poets
- Castro Speech Database
- Classical Orators from the Perseus Project: Greek and Roman Materials
- Conversations with History
- DNA of Literature [description from website: "in-depth interviews with poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, critics, musicians, and more, whose work set the compass of twentieth-century writing, and continue to do so into the twenty-first"; free downloads] (The Paris Review)
- Douglass Archives of American Public Address
- E Pluribus Unum Project (Assumption College)
- Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR Presidential Library)
- Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World
- Great Interviews (CBC)
- Graduation Speeches (Yahoo! Education)
- History and Politics Out Loud
- History Channel Speeches and Video
- History Place: Great Speeches Collection
- InfoUSA Information America: Famous Speeches (U.S. Department of State)
- Landon Lecture Series on Public Issues (KSU)
- Inaugural Addresses of all US Presidents (bartleby.com)
- Lenin's Famous Speeches
- Mahatma Gandhi Famous Speeches
- Malcolm X: His Words Written and Spoken
- Mandela Speaks--Selected Speeches, Statements and Writings of Nelson Mandela
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Speeches (Stanford)
- Nixon Speeches (Renka)
- Online Audio and Video Recordings: UC Berkeley Lectures and Events
- Oral History Online (Penn State Users Only)
- People's Archive [filmed interviews with "the great thinkers, creators, and achievers of our time"]
- Pope John Paul II: Speeches
- PresidentialRhetoric.com
- Presidential Speeches (UVa)
- Program in Presidential Rhetoric (Texas A&M;)
- Questia: Famous Speeches
- Ronald Reagan, In His Own Words (NPR)
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library: Speeches (UTexas)
- Say It Plain: A Century of Great African-American Speeches (American RadioWorks)
- Selected Speeches of Lyndon Baines Johnson (UTexas)
- Selected Speeches of Winston Churchill (The Churchill Centre)
- Speech and Transcript Center [contemporary] (Gary Price)
- Speeches (UMd)
- Speeches of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy (The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum)
- Televised [Presidential] Debate History: 1960-2000
- Vincent Voice Library ["a collection of over 40,000 hours of spoken word recordings, dating back to 1888" (website, 12/18/2006)] (MSU)
- Voices: Commencement Speeches (Humanity.org)
- Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000 (Penn State Users Only)
See also these PSU Subject Libraries' related pages:
Architecture Library:
Arts and Humanities Library:
Gateway:
Physical and Mathematical Sciences Library:
Social Sciences Library:
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