{"id":351,"date":"2015-06-30T17:10:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/?page_id=351"},"modified":"2020-04-15T20:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:21:47","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/start-researching\/research-by-subject-2\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Databases<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/american-national-biography-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color:#2248D3\">American National Biography<\/a> 5 simultaneous users <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"&lt;strong&gt;5 simultaneous users.&lt;\/strong&gt; Online version of the 24 volume reference work, which updates the &lt;em&gt;Dictionary of American Biography&lt;\/em&gt;. It \u201coffers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation.\u201d All subjects are deceased. Biographies which overlap the &lt;em&gt;DAB&lt;\/em&gt; have been completely rewritten.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/biography-in-context\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color:#2248D3\">Biography in Context<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"A full-text database of biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines biographies from multiple Gale reference publications, such as &lt;em&gt;Contemporary Authors&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Encyclopedia of World Biography&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Dictionary of American Biography&lt;\/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;Directory of American Scholars&lt;\/em&gt;, with articles from more than 300 magazines, such as &lt;em&gt;American History&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Christian Century&lt;\/em&gt;, and &lt;em&gt;U.S. News &amp;amp; World Report&lt;\/em&gt;.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/biography-reference-bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color:#2248D3\">Biography Reference Bank<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Biographical information on over half a million people from around the world, with articles from such biographical reference books as &lt;em&gt;Current Biography&lt;\/em&gt; and the &lt;em&gt;World Author Series&lt;\/em&gt;, as well as magazine citations from &lt;em&gt;Biography Index Database&lt;\/em&gt; after 1984. Some third party publications are included, such as a subset of the biographies from Oxford&#039;s &lt;em&gt;American National Biography&lt;\/em&gt;.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.lib.miamioh.edu\/literature-resource-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color:#2248D3\">Literature Resource Center<\/a> <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Designed for undergraduate students, this contains information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more, drawn from these sources: &lt;em&gt;Dictionary of Literary Biography&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Contemporary Authors&lt;\/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Contemporary Literary Criticism&lt;\/em&gt; (starting with vol. 95), and Merriam-Webster&#039;s &lt;em&gt;Encyclopedia of Literature&lt;\/em&gt;. In addition it provides selected full-text, excerpted critical materials, articles from 260 literary journals, and links to selected websites.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-e1433982826316.jpg\" alt=\"info\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Databases American National Biography 5 simultaneous users Biography in Context Biography Reference Bank Literature Resource Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/revisions\/2179"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ham.miamioh.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}