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Biographical Sources: Websites with Biographies

African Americans

Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C. 1920-1930
BlackPast
The History Makers
Nation's largest African American Video Oral History Collection
African American Women Writers of the 19th century

Authors

Academy of American Poets
3,000 biographies of poets
Native American Authors
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
Lots of biographical information
African American Women Writers of the 19th century
A celebration of Women Writers

Arts and Entertainment biographies

Musicians from All About Jazz
ESPN: Top North American athletes of the century
Advance Search in Internet Movie Database
Use the Advanced Name Search or the Name Text Search to find biographical information
Artists' biographies
from the Van Gogh Gallery
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Artist Biographies from artrepublic
Women Composers

Biographical Websites

Academy of Achievement
BBC Historical Figures
Biography.com
Infoplease Biography
Search over 30,000+ biographies
National Women's History Museum-biographies
Biographies of women by categories
PBS Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries
120 entries about 20th century scientists and their stories.
Legacy.com Obituaries
Spotlight Biography
Spotlight Biography is the Smithsonian's virtual center-stage for famous and not-so-famous American artists and athletes, soldiers and scientists, inventors and social reformers, and other interesting people
Time--Most Influential 100 of 2020
Who2
Biographies of famous people

Scientists, inventors

Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
Famous Scientists
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
from University of St Andrews, Scotland
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
from Agnes Scott College
The Famous People Mathematicians

World Leaders