UMass Amherst Libraries Research Databases

Databases in Biographies

African American Biographical Database
A source for information on 19th and early 20th century African American lives and culture, a digitized collection of books published 1790-1950.
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American National Biography Online
Two- to three-page biographies of 17,500 Americans from earliest history to current day, with occupation and birthplace searching and some pictures, 1600-present.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Provides references to names in hundreds of biographical dictionaries dating from the mid-20th century to present.
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Biography in Context
Brief biographies from Who's Who and other sources. Current.
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National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs
Brief biographies of American scientists written by their peers, since 1877.
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Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles
Biographical extracts and bibliographic information on centuries of mostly women, mostly British, writers.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
United Kingdom's national biographical dictionary, containing 50,000 biographies from earliest times to the present.
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Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive
On-campus use only.
Fifty thousand video testimonies in 32 languages, from 56 countries, on the Holocaust. Public access version (requires registration, contains indexing and limited videos only).

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Visual History Archive