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Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Access to key works from the highly acclaimed Heinemann's African Writers Series. This series provides seminal works from the canon of African literature of the 20th century, covering such authors as Nelson Mandela, Chinua Achebe, Tayeb Salih, Steve Biko, Ama Ata Aidoo, Nadine Gordimer, and Buchi Emecheta. Influential stories, along with drama and poetry, are fully searchable and richly indexed. Author biographies are included. Help - Website
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Biographies of African Americans, both famous and everyday persons, from 1790 to 1950. Help - Website
Format: Online Video Available: On & Off Campus Watch full episodes of the PBS series American Experience, which "brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America's past and present". Includes transcripts and teacher's resources.
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all eras and walks of American life who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. Includes thousands of illustrations, hyperlinked cross-references, and links to select websites. Help - User Guide (Website) | Help - Web Page
Format: Citation/Abstract Available: On & Off Campus Find locations of over 15 million brief biographies of individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world. Help - Website
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Biographical information on more than half a million people from throughout history and around the world. Help - Video Tutorial
Format: Some Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Citations to biographies and autobiographies, interviews, obituaries, collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, juvenile literature, book reviews, bibliographies, and exhibition reviews. People covered range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities. Indexing since 1984. Help - Video Tutorial | Help - PowerPoint Tutorial | Help - PDF tutorial
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Contains the complete Encyclopædia Britannica, as well as Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus and the Britannica Book of the Year. Includes articles, illustrations, and relevant websites. Help - Guided Tour (PDF) | Help - Web Page
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Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus The Dictionary of Irish Biography includes the lives of 9,000 Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland. Help - Web Page
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Format: Citation/Abstract Available: On & Off Campus OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of more than 1,800 academic open access repositories. As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents. The current directory lists repositories and allows breakdown and selection by a variety of criteria (e.g., subject area, content type, and country).
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus eBooks Collection includes about 9,000 eBooks that are recent scholarly, general interest and reference books that have been converted into a digital format. You can preview the book or check it out to read on your computer.
Format: Online Video Available: On & Off Campus FRONTLINE is a weekly PBS documentary program "covering the scope and complexity of the human experience". View full episodes as far back as 1983. The Frontline site includes lesson plans and activities to accompany use of the documentaries in the classroom.
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Search for full-text articles on a wide range of people from fields such as science, sports, entertainment, and business. Sources include American Men & Women of Science, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Notable Sports Figures, Business Leader Profiles for Students, and many others. Help - Video Tutorial | Help - Search Tips (PDF)
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Includes Japanese language dictionaries (Japanese, English-Japanese, Japanese-English and English-English), a 30-volume encyclopedia, two dictionaries of current words, a dictionary of scientific terms, a biographical dictionary, the JK Who's Who, the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, a news database (NNA) that covers Asia and the European Union, full-text books, a database of video recordings from 1908 to 2005, a database of dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan, a books in print database, a sound library, and a music library. Added December 2012
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Information, full-text articles and criticism on authors from all time periods and genres. Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography and other literature reference sources. Help - Video Tutorial | Help - Search Tips (PDF) | Help - Website
Available: On & Off Campus Books, DVDs, and other items in our library.
Profiles of over 1.4 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports. Combines entries from 21 Who's Who directories, including 110,000 brief biographies from Who Was Who in American History (1607-1985). Help - Website Note: Access limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Combines more than 7,500 articles by scholars drawn from reference works. Includes the complete text of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, The Encyclopedia of African American History, Black Women in America, African American National Biography, and The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, plus selected articles from many other reference works published by Oxford University Press. Also includes more than 1,000 images, maps, charts, tables, and primary sources with specially written commentaries. Help - Website
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Oxford Art includes Grove Art Online with articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. Help - PowerPoint | Help - Web Page
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Concise articles about noteworthy people in all walks of life from the British Isles and their connections overseas, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. No living person is included: the dictionary's articles are confined to people who died before December 31, 2000. Also includes "themes"—essays on groups, clubs, sets, and gangs in British history, linked to articles on their individual members. Help - PowerPoint | Help - Web Page
Format: Online Video Available: On Campus Only The Visual History Archive contains 52,000 digitized video interviews with Holocaust survivors. The interviews were conducted in 56 different countries, in 32 different languages. Each interview is fully indexed and allows a viewer to search for relevant portions of interviews. • The Visual History Archive is only accessible on the UM Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses. If you are off campus, you will be directed to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive Online, which allows searching of the full database and access to a small number of sample testimonies in English. • Users must register and create a workspace to view interviews. • Some interviews need to be requested 24 hours in advance. Help and other detailed information
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Dr. Sid Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, has interviewed over 150 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews. His interviews with these survivors are recorded on about 330 hours of audio and 60 hours of video. Selected interview transcripts and audio files are available online. Help - Web Page
Format: Some Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, etc. documenting women's activism in public life. Previously inaccessible data and statistics from the publications of local and state commissions on women since 1963 are also included as well as an indexed, searchable online edition of the highly respected, Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (5 vols, 1971-2004). Help - Website
Format: Some Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women's social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life. Help - Website Added September 2012
Format: Full Text Available: On & Off Campus Includes: Yomiuri shinbun of Meiji, Taisho, Showa and current issues; The Daily Yomiuri; and a biographical database. Includes an English language search function and some English full text. Added December 2012 Questions about Biography research?
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