American National Biography

Product description

Premier source of information about people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American culture. With sophisticated search capabilities, lively and detailed articles, internal cross-references, up-to-date bibliographies, and links to external web resources, ANB Online represents the benchmark for online reference tools in the 21st century. Discover the lives of thousands of well-known, infamous and important but little-known individuals, all of whom have shaped America's history in some way. From missionaries to musicians, social workers to statisticians, biographers to baseball players and cowboys to chemists, the entries tin ANB Online combine to present a social, cultural, economic, political, military and popular portrait of the history and character of the American nation.

A huge online reference resource: 18,000+ detailed profiles of Americans born both in and outside the United States; profiling wide range of people from all walks of like; covers individuals from pre-colonial times onwards; includes contributions from 6000+ expert authors, thousands of illustrations and photos; detailed bibliographies follow each entry; published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies; up to 100 new or revised biographies by leading historians added each quarter; quarterly updates also incorporate new factual information and new bibliographical resources.

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Format: Online
Key stage: 4
Age range: 14-16+