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The American National Biography (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries [1] and 20 million words, [2] first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography By James Terry White, online at Google Books: Volume 2, published 1895. John Adams is in Volume 2, page 1. Volume 3, published 1893. Volume 4, published 1897. Ulysses S. Grant is in Volume 4, page 1. Volume 5, published 1894. Volume 8, published 1900. Volume 9, published 1899. Volume 10, published ...
Australian Dictionary of Biography: English Entries on notable Australians who have died Free Croatian Biographical Lexicon: Croatian: Multi-volume biographical reference work on notable figures from Croatian history Free Deutsche Biographie: German: Biographies on notable German speaking people Free American National Biography: English
African American National Biography Project; American Council of Learned Societies, Dictionary of American Biography, New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-684-80631-2. OCLC 4171403. American National Biography; Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography; Asimov, Isaac, Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
His 1953 biography, Henry Cabot Lodge (Knopf, 1953), was the first scholarly and authoritative life of the Massachusetts politician Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924); a notable feature of that book was the set of footnotes written at Garraty's invitation by Lodge's grandson, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902-1985), expressing disagreement with ...
The Edwin Arlington Robinson House in Gardiner, Maine. Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine, on December 22, 1869. [2] His parents were Edward and Mary (née Palmer). They had wanted a girl, and did not name him until he was six months old, when they visited a holiday resort—at which point other vacationers decided that he should have a name, and selected the name "Edwin" from a hat ...
These 20 volumes contained 15,000 biographies. [2] In 1946, the 20 volumes were released as a ten-volume set, with each of the ten volumes divided into two parts (Part 1 and Part 2) corresponding to two volumes of the first edition combined into one, the page numbering of the first edition being retained.
African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865–1945; African American National Biography Project; The Afro-American Press and Its Editors; American Authors and Books; American Men and Women of Science; American National Biography; Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography