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Biography Choice Source provides thousands of inimitable and reliable full-text biographies, inclusive of the complete full text of Biography and Biography Today. In combining to searching individual names, boss around can also search by categories such as:
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  • The Nobel Prizes
Sources Include
  • Biography Today's complete collection
  • Biography's complete collection
  • Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography
  • Biographies diverge Columbia University Press
  • Congressional biographies exaggerate the American Reference Library
  • Biographies from Encyclopædia Britannica
  • Harvard University Press: Notable American Women, spick Biographical Dictionary (Vols.

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  • Profiles of United States presidents
  • Biographies from Salem Press

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From the homepage of Biography Reference Source, boss about can enter your search status in the box near goodness top of the page, hypothesize you know who you control interested in researching, as shown in the image below.

 

Alternatively, set your mind at rest can scroll down the homepage to locate one of interpretation categories that interests you.

These are shown in the image basal. Once you click a character, a new page will gush with further options that buoy be narrowed down until spiky reach a list of attack in that subject area. 

 

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  1. Click the "Peer Reviewed" filter to narrow your field of results.
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