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** Biographytoc **
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 * "There is properly no history; only biography." Ralph Waldo Emerson / "The history of the world is but the biography of great men." Thomas Carlyle **

**Databases**

 * [|Biography Resource Center]
 * [|Contemporary Authors] (in ACCESS PA)
 * [|netLibrary] (in ACCESS PA)
 * Encyclopedias: [|World Book], [|Grolier]
 * [|Google Books]

Use [|Alexandria Catalog] to locate the biographies on our shelves. Most biographies are arranged alphabetically according to the subject's name. Collective biographies, books that profile several people, are located in the 920s both on the circulating and the reference shelves.  Don't forget video biographies!

**Web Portals for Biography**

 * [|Biographical Dictionary]
 * [|SweetSearchBiographies]
 * [|Biography.com]
 * [|Lives, the Biography Resource]
 * [|Multnomah Homework Center: Biographies]
 * [|National Obituary Archive]
 * [|Gale] (free resources)
 * [|LibrarySpot: Biographies]
 * [|Who2?](check out the links!)
 * [|Academy of Achievement]
 * [|Historic Figures]

**On the Presidents**

 * [|POTUS]
 * [|American Presidency Project]
 * [|Presidential Debates]
 * [|Presidential Libraries]
 * [|Presidents of the United States]
 * [|Presidents of the United States] (another great source for presidential information)
 * [|PBS American Experience: The Presidents]
 * [|American Presidents: Life Portraits]
 * [|"I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations]
 * [|Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents (Washington to Bush)]
 * [|Presidents Index]
 * [|National Portrait Gallery Search]
 * [|American Presidency Project]
 * [|White House.gov]
 * Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
 * U.S. Presidents and the Presidency
 * Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: George Washington to George W. Bush
 * How the Presidents Stack Up

Specific Presidents

 * [|Correspondence Between John and Abigail Adams]
 * [|Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum]
 * [|Nixon White House Tapes]
 * [|LBJ White House Tapes]
 * [|Lincolniana at Brown]
 * [|Kennedy Assassination Homepage]
 * Assassination of John F. Kennedy Photographic Archive
 * [|John F. Kennedy Records Search] (NARA)
 * [|JFK Video: The Dallas Tapes]

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