Biography Resource Center 
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Description: Biography Resource Center contains nearly 415,000 biographies on more than 320,000 people gathered from more than 780 volumes of over 120 Gale reference sources as well as full-text articles from more than 280 magazines specifically chosen for their biographical content in a broad range of subject areas. To search individual titles, select the Advanced Search option and then limit by Source.
Selected List of Titles (not exhaustive):
- African Biography
- Almanac of Famous People
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
- Carroll's County, Federal, Municipal and State Directories
- The Cold War 1945-1991
- Concise Dictionaries of American and British Literary Biography
- Constitutional Amendments
- Contemporary Artists
- Contemporary Authors & Contemporary Authors New Revision Series
- Contemporary Black Biography
- Contemporary Hispanic Biography
- Contemporary Musicians
- Contemporary Newsmakers
- Debrett's People of Today
- Dictionary of American Biography & Dictionary of Hispanic Biography
- Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
- Gay & Lesbian Biography
- Historic World Leaders
- International Dictionaries of: Architects; Art & Artists; Ballet; Films & Filmmakers; Modern Dance; Opera and Theatre
- Notable Black American Men & Notable Black American Women
- Notable Hispanic American Women
- Notable Native Americans
- Notable Scientists: From 1900 to the Present
- People of the Holocaust
- Religious Leaders of America
- St. James Guide(s) to...
- Who's Who Among African Americans
- World Eras (Vols. 1-7, 9)
- World of Invention & World of Scientific Discovery
- Writers Directory
Use Thomson Gale PowerSearch to search across multiple Gale collections of periodical, book, and reference content.
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s)
Almanacs, Biographies & Encyclopedias
Subscription Database List
Related Databases
African American Biographical Database
American National Biography
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biography Index
Britannica Online
Contemporary Authors
Credo Reference : Biography
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Music Online
World Almanacs
World Biographical Information System
Other Related Links:
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Biographical Dictionary
Find A Grave
Lives (Guide to Posthumous Biography Sites on the Web)
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