Reference Shelf- Biography
- Biography
and Genealogy Master Index
- Index to biographies on over 4 million people from the beginning
of time through the present. Available to UT (Knoxville
campus) faculty, staff, and students.
Databases
— Biographies - The Library provides selected databases that offer biographical
information for artists, authors, notable persons from the United
Kingdom, and more. Available to UT (Knoxville
campus) faculty, staff, and students.
Biography.com - From A&E, the Arts and Entertainment network. Brief biographies
representing over 20,000 lives from antiquity to the present.
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Biographical Dictionary - Search the dictionary "by names, birth years, death years, positions
held, professions, literary and artistic works, miscellaneous achievements,
and other keywords."
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
- Along with biographical information are bibliographies and sources
of research collections that lead, respectively, to additional biographical
material and to collections housing documents such as personal papers.
Search by last name, first name, position, state, or by combinations
of any of these.
Presidents of the United States
(POTUS) - Provides "background information, election results, cabinet members,
notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents."
Useful inclusion of links to "biographies, historical documents, audio
and video files, and other presidential sites."
Rulers - "Lists of heads of state and heads of government...of all countries
and territories, usually going back to at least 1900." Dates of birth
and death provided for each ruler as well as term of office. Search
by country, international organization, and by foreign ministers.
