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History:

Biographical Resources

Below are some resources for biographical information. The resources listed in General are applicable for any category. If you need help with any of these resources or with finding biographical information, please ask at the Hunt Library reference desk.

• African History: Biographical Resources
• African American History: Biographical Resources
• American History: Biographical Resources
• Anthropology: Biographical Resources
• Asian History: Biographical Resources
• Atlantic World: Biographical Resources
• Business and Industrial History: Biographical Resources
• Environmental History: Biographical Resources
• European History: Biographical Resources
• Foreign Policy: Biographical Resources
• General
• Historians
• History of Medicine: Biographical Resources
• History of Technology and Science: Biographical Resources
• Labor and Economic History: Biographical Resources
• Latin American and Caribbean History: Biographical Resources
• Pittsburgh History: Biographical Resources
• Sports History: Biographical Resources
• Women's History: Biographical Resources

Biographical Resources:

General

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  An index for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. It indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

• American National Biography. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  HUNT REF-1 CT213 .A68 1999

• Contemporary Authors (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.

• Current Biography. Bronx, New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1940-present. (monthly).
  HUNT REF-1 CT100 .C8
  Current Biography. (Carnegie Mellon Users only)
  1940-present (updated annually).
  Available: Wilson Biographies

• Dictionary of American Biography. 22 vols. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1928-58.
  HUNT REF-1 E176 .D56

• Dictionary of National Biography. 66 vols. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1885-1901.
  HUNT REF-1 DA28 .D4

• Kamen, Henry. Who's Who in Europe, 1450-1750. New York: Routledge, 2000.
  HUNT REF-1 D106 .K36 2000

• White, J. T., ed. The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Clifton, N.J.: J. T. White, 1893-.
  HUNT REF-1 E176 .N27

• Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History (Carnegie Mellon users only)

• Wilson Biographies (Carnegie Mellon users only)

• Yahoo!:
  • Arts: Humanities: History:
    • By Time Period: 19th Century: People
    • By Time Period: 20th Century: People
    • U. S. History: People
  • Regional: Regions: Europe: Arts and Humanities: Humanities: History: By Time Period: Middle Ages: People

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Biographical Resources:

Historians

• American Historians, 1607-1865. Vol. 30, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1984.
  HUNT REF-1 PS21 .D5 vol. 30

• American Historians, 1866-1912. Vol. 47, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986.
  HUNT REF-1 PS21 .D5 vol. 47

• Boia, Lucian, et al., eds. Great Historians from Antiquity to 1800: An International Dictionary. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
  HUNT REF-1 D14 .G74 1989

• Boia, Lucian, et al., eds. Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
  HUNT REF-1 D14 .G75 1991

• Boyd, Kelly. Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.
  HUNT REF-1 D14 .E53 1999

• Cannon, John, et al., eds. The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians. New York: Blackwell Reference, 1988.
  HUNT REF-1 D14 .B58 1988

• Nickel, Jacqueline M. National Directory of Latin Americanists: Biographies of 1422 Specialists. Dallas, Tex.: Taylor Pub. Co., 1992.
  HUNT REF-1 F1409 .8.A2 N36 1992

• Twentieth Century Historians. Vol 17, Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983.
  HUNT REF-1 PS21 .D5 vol. 17

• Woolf, D. R., ed. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. 2 vols. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.
  HUNT REF-1 D13 .G47 1998

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History

February 5, 2008 -- http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/sc24/History/biography.html
Sue Collins, Senior Librarian, sc24@andrew.cmu.edu