4000 Years of Women in Science Biographies
This site is a section of the 4000 Years of Women in Science page. It houses biographies and biographical information of important women scientists over the past 4000 years. This site was created by Dr. Deborah Crocker in collaboration with the University of Alabama. Dr. Crocker is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Alabama. She received her Ph.D. degree in 1987 from the University of Virginia.

The Academy of American Poets
This resource is a searchable database containing biographies and links to biographical information on important American poets of the past and present. It also contain current information on poetry, audio clips, a discussion forum, and information on the Academy's current projects.

The American Civil War Homepage
George Hoemann, Assistant Dean and former lecturer for the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, has compiled links to resources about the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
This official US Congressional site provides biographical information about members of Congress throughout history from 1774-present. The entries include bibliographies.

Biography
This site is available from A&E Television Networks. Users can search for brief entries about more than 25,000 people from past and present.

A Celebration of Women Writers
This site has a huge archive containing biographies and links to biographical information on a multitude of women writers of the past and present from around the world. It houses a searchable database that allows one to search for writers by time period, name, or by country. This site is maintained by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, a former research programmer from Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science with credentials in psychology and research.

De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
"DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees ("stemmata") of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a growing number of capsule descriptions and maps of these battles, and (6) maps of the empire at different times. Wherever possible, these materials are cross-referenced by live links." This site is supported by Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.

Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences
Profiles of African-Americans who have made scientific discoveries are found here. This site is maintained by Louisiana State University Libraries.

The First Ladies' Gallery
This site provides biographies and research material for each of the First Ladies of the United States. It is maintained by the official White House Web site.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The University of Houston History Department recommends several Web sources including digitized transcripts of slaves' stories.

Great Literature Online
This site is a searchable database that provides works of literature by great American authors. It contains complete novels, backed by dozens of links to research, author biographies, and old newspaper articles.

The History of Economic Thought Website
This site houses a number of essays, links, and biographies on important economists of the past and present. This site is maintained by the Department of Economics at Johns Hopkins University.

History - American and British
Stanley Nash and Tom Glynn of Rutgers University Libraries have created links to scholarly Internet resources about American and British history. Click on the links under "Indexes and Databases" for useful information.

HyperHistory Online
The site has "2 000 files covering 3 000 years of world history." A link is provided to biographical information. The timeline has evolved from a print chart to an interactive Web resource.

The Library of Congress
This resource offers links to primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history.

Luminarium Anthology of Middle English Literature
This site houses a searchable anthology including a vast number of Middle English essays, articles, plays, and song lyrics as well as biographies and links to biographical information on authors of Middle English Literature. This site was created by Anniina Jokinen, a suma cum laude graduate of Temple University with a BA in English.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
This resource at Stanford University provides primary and secondary documents about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement.

National American Women Suffrage Association Collection
This resource draws information about the Women's Suffrage Movement between 1848 and 1921. It is part of the Library of Congress, American Memory collection.

National Inventors Hall of Fame
This site offers biographies of inventors worldwide Background information about this non-profit organization and this Web site is hyperlinked from the front page.

Nobel e-Museum
This site provides a searchable database of Nobel Laureates as well as Nobel Medals, Nobel Prizes, Prize amounts, and Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies. Most Nobel Laureates provide a biography, autobiography, or a Curriculum Vitae. This page is presented and maintained by the Nobel Foundation.

PBS Frontline Biographies
This site is a searchable database on the PBS program Frontline. It has biographies and links to biographical information on people featured in the program.

The Papers of George Washington
This site contains links to electronic reproductions of selections from George Washington's correspondence.

POTUS (Presidents of the United States)
This site has background information as well as election results, presidency highlights and cabinet members for each President. The Internet Public Library is responsible for this site.

Presidential Libraries IDEA Network
This Leadership Information Archives Information Resources site offers links to presidential and first ladies' information. A special feature includes links to presidential Web sites.

The Presidents of the United States of America
This site provides biographies and research material for each of the United States Presidents. It is maintained by the official White House Web site.

Spy Letters of the American Revolution
This site contains a gallery of letters, stories, a timeline, and biographical information on people involved in spying during the American Revolution. It is maintained by the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

White House History
This official White House site lists biographies of US Presidents, First Ladies and their families.

Women in Politics
The US State Department maintains this site, which contains essays and articles about women that are involved in politics and how women can become involved in politics plus links to additional resources.

Women's Legal History Biography Project
This resource draws from information and documents housed in the Stanford Law School Robert Crown Law Library. It contains photographs, articles, obituaries, research leads, biographies, and links to biographical information about important women lawyers in American history.

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