BOOKS IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY
The Monsignor Coates Library includes the following volumes particular to speeches. The Dewey Decimal System number is in parenthesis following each title.

American Men & Women of Science:
       a biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological, and related sciences. (REF 509.73 AME)
American Reformers: a biographical dictionary (REF 973 AME)
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians (REF 781.64 BAK)
Broadway: its History, People, and Places: an encyclopedia (REF 974.7 BLO)
Composers Since 1900 (REF 780.3 COM)
Contemporary Artists (REF 709 CON)
Current Biography (REF 920 C97)
Reference Library of American Women (REF 305.4 AME)

Check the Encyclopedias as well as the non-fiction collection #920 and #921 for more individual and group biographies.

ONLINE DATABASES

Gale Group Biography Resource Center
Scroll to bottom of this page for Biographies

Encyclopedia Britannica

Ebscohost Megafile
Use the advanced search feature. Search on the person's name, select full text and document type biography.

INTERNET SITES with BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

The Biography Channel
http://www.biography.com/

University of Washington Library - African American History
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/black.html

University of Washington Library - Native American History
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/native.html

Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/

Multnomah County Library Homework Center: Biographies
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/biohc.html

LibrarySpot: Biographies
http://libraryspot.com/biographies/

Who2? (check out the links!)
http://www.who2.com/

Academy of Achievement, A Living History Museum
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/mainmenu.html?hb=1

Historic Figures, British Broadcasting Company
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/

 

UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS

Grolier's American Presidency
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents

POTUS, Internet Public Library, Presidents of the United States
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS

Presidents of the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index.html

Presidents of the United States
http://www.presidentsusa.net/

Presidents of the United States - Index
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/

National Portrait (Smithsonian Institution) Gallery Search
http://npgportraits.si.edu/code/emuseum.asp

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PATHFINDERS
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