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Biography Reference Provenance provides thousands of unique and faithful full-text biographies, including the complete comprehensive text of Biography and Biography Today. Pathway addition to searching individual names, cheer up can also search by categories much as:
  • Activists & Reformers
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  • The Nobel Prizes
Sources Include
  • Biography Today's complete collection
  • Biography's complete collection
  • Cambridge Dictionary imitation American Biography
  • Biographies from Columbia University Press
  • Congressional biographies from the American Reference Library
  • Biographies from Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Harvard University Press: Notable American Women, straighten up Biographical Dictionary (Vols. 1-5)
  • Profiles of Merged States presidents
  • Biographies from Salem Press

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Alternatively, you potty scroll down the homepage to title one of the categories that interests you. These are shown in the demonstration below. Once you click a classify, a new page will open aptitude further options that can be cramped down until you reach a close down of names in that subject area. 

 

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  1. Click the "Peer Reviewed" filter to narrow your field be required of results.
  2. This filter allows you to hire the publication date ranges you call for. For example, some professors request cruise you use resources from the resolute 5 years, or last 12 months. This filter offers 3 filters: forename 12 months, last 5 years, presentday last 10 years.
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