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Kendall, John. "American National Biography." Reference Reviews 28, no. 2 (2014): 7–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rr-11-2013-0296.

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the American National Biography including a brief history of the book and details on its electronic format. Design/methodology/approach - An historical account of the forerunner publications is provided, followed by consideration of the printed and the electronic versions. Illustrative examples are used throughout. It is briefly compared with a similar work from the UK. The advantages of the electronic format are assessed. Findings - The American National Biography provides a comprehensive coverage of notable Americans and offers

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Blair, Jennifer. "American National Biography." Charleston Advisor 22, no. 1 (2020): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5260/chara.22.1.5.

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American National Biography provides access through a subscription to biographies of over 19,000 historical figures that helped to shape American history. The biographies span from pre-World War II to the present, with an emphasis on historical and cultural figures. The price varies and is based on subscription type and institution or a personal subscription, but primarily on number of users. The interface could use improvement in its advanced search features, response to queries, and incorporating automated responses. But searchability by occupation is a benefit. The content is ideal for basi

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Petersen, Ronald H., and Henning Knudsen. "Jakob Emanuel Lange: The man and his mushrooms." MycoKeys 89 (April 26, 2022): 1–86. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.89.79064.

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Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864–1941), Danish mushroom taxonomist and illustrator, was an agricultural educator and economic philosopher. A follower and translator of the American Henry George, Lange was Headmaster of a "Small-holders High-School," which served as a model for American folk-schools. Lange visited North America on three occasions. The first, in 1927, relied on his professional expertise; the second, in 1931, was purely mycological; and the third, 1939, was a combination of the two. All of this was lived against two World Wars and the Great Depression. This paper summarises the circums

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Ware, Susan. "Writing Women's Lives: One Historian's Perspective." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 40, no. 3 (2010): 413–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2010.40.3.413.

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From the start, biography played a vibrant and significant part in the growth of women's history, especially American women's history, as a well-respected and popular field within the historical profession. The insistence of feminist biographers that the personal is political, and that attention must be paid to the daily lives of their subjects as well as to their more public achievements, continues to ripple through the field of biography as a whole. To talk about biography is also to talk about the biographer, for the precise reason that behind every biography lies autobiography—that special

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Burner, David, John A. Garraty, and Mark C. Carnes. "Dictionary of American Biography." Journal of American History 76, no. 4 (1990): 1350. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2936733.

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Bradley, M. P. "Napalm: An American Biography." Journal of American History 101, no. 1 (2014): 325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau190.

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Matiu, Ovidiu. "Frederick Douglass Revisited: Booker T. Washington’s Perspective on His Legacy." East-West Cultural Passage 24, no. 2 (2024): 76–87. https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2024-0017.

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Abstract This essay explores Booker T. Washington’s perspective on the legacy of Frederick Douglass, as presented in his 1906 eponymous biography. Douglass (1818-1895), an abolitionist, orator, journalist, and statesman, emerged as one of the most influential African-American leaders of his time. His autobiographical works, his speeches, his journalistic activity and his political activism solidified his place in American literature and historical discourse. Washington’s biography presents Douglass both as a symbol of African American progress and as a pragmatic political leader. It also highl

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Porterfield, Amanda. "Review Essay: American Religious Biography." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 15, no. 2 (2005): 245–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2005.15.2.245.

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Garraty, John A., J. Franklin Jameson, and Frederick Jackson Turner. "The Dictionary of American Biography*." Reviews in American History 16, no. 4 (1988): 668. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2702372.

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Monteon, Michael. "Biography and Latin American History." Latin American Research Review 40, no. 2 (2005): 193–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0026.

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Margolies, Edward. "American biography: Anderson, Dreiser, Toomer." English Studies 70, no. 4 (1989): 372–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138388908598644.

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Warner, Sue. "Kornfeld, Margaret Fuller - A Brief Biography With Documents." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 24, no. 1 (1999): 49–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.24.1.49-50.

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Margaret Fuller was well known in early nineteenth-century America as a writer, philosopher, feminist, and activist. She was part of the Transcendentalist movement, a friend and colleague (and often a critic) of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the first editor of the Transcendentalists' journal, the Dial, and the first American woman journalist to serve as a foreign correspondent. Yet she remains virtually unknown to Americans today. In this brief biography, Eve Kornfeld, professor of history at San Diego State University, attempts to convey the essential elements of Fuller's life and her struggle to cre

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Beilke, Jayne R. "Review Essay: Recent Additions to the Rosenwald Historiography." History of Education Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2011): 544–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2011.00357.x.

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This essay reviews two books on Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Fund and places them within the historiography of the Fund. Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South, is a biography written by Peter M. Ascoli. The book entitled The Rosenwald Schools of the American South written by Mary S. Hoffschwelle is a study of the rural school-building program with which the Fund is most closely associated. Ascoli's biography joins three other new biographies of early philanthropists that were published in 2006: David Nasaw's And

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Wilson, Rob. "Producing American Selves: The Form of American Biography." boundary 2 18, no. 2 (1991): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/303281.

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Sergieva, Natalia S. "American Stage of Pitirim Sorokin’s Linguistic Biography." Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices 16, no. 1 (2019): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-897x-2019-16-1-35-44.

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The article discusses the features of the bilingualism of an eminent sociologist of the twentieth century Pitirim Sorokin in the American period of his life. The purpose of the study is to identify and explain the linguistic features of his scientific thinking in connection with the development of his scientific worldview. The study is based on the materials of Pitirim A. Sorokin Collection at the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). Archival manuscripts and research notes allow us to trace the process of changing the language and switching codes in the professional activities of Pitirim Sorok

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Annette Gordon-Reed. "Writing Early American Lives as Biography." William and Mary Quarterly 71, no. 4 (2014): 491. http://dx.doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.71.4.0491.

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Singal, Daniel J., and Frederick R. Karl. "William Faulkner: American Writer. A Biography." Journal of American History 77, no. 2 (1990): 628. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2079198.

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Cobb, James C., and Frederick R. Karl. "William Faulkner: American Writer. A Biography." Journal of Southern History 57, no. 1 (1991): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2209906.

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Lookingbill, Brad. "Weisner And Hartford, Eds., American Portraits - Biographies In United States History." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 23, no. 2 (1998): 92–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.23.1.92-94.

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Teaching historians often assign biography to supplement reading lists for the introductory survey classroom, even though selecting which life to share might be a difficult process. Biography represents a unique form of history and literature, inviting a reader to come to terms with the significance of human agency. Indeed, a biography possesses the potential to reveal how a particular person influenced and was influenced by broader historical forces.

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Lippy, Charles H., and Henry Warner Bowden. "Dictionary of American Religious Biography. Second Edition." Journal of American History 81, no. 4 (1995): 1878. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2081890.

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Hay, Amy M. "Napalm: An American Biography by Robert Neer." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 112, no. 2 (2014): 329–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/khs.2014.0089.

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Kinkela, David. "Robert M. Neer. Napalm: An American Biography." American Historical Review 119, no. 2 (2014): 551–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.2.551.

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Markowitz, Gerald. "The Grid: Biography of an American Technology." Journal of American History 105, no. 4 (2019): 1043. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaz091.

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Lewis, Thomas. "Whisenhunt, Ed., American Portraits - History Through Biography." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 19, no. 2 (1994): 94–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.19.2.94-95.

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Professor Whisenhunt has assembled two excellent collections of biographical essays designed primarily for introductory history courses at the college level. In addition to their sound scholarship, the sixty essays in the two volumes are extremely interesting and provocative.

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Rollyson, Carl. "American Biography: The Year in The US." Biography 39, no. 4 (2016): 681–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2016.0082.

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Rollyson, Carl. "American Biography: The Year in the US." Biography 42, no. 1 (2019): 168–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2019.0025.

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Franklin, V. P., and Bettye Collier-Thomas. "Biography, Race Vindication, and African American Intellectuals." Journal of African American History 87, no. 1 (2002): 160–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/jaahv87n1p160.

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Corry, Frances. "The Grid: Biography of an American Technology." New Media & Society 20, no. 11 (2018): 4408–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444818788327.

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Betts, William. "William Betts. Paintings." Papeles de Cultura Contemporánea Hum736, no. 27 (July 4, 2025): 237–55. https://doi.org/10.30827/pcc.27.2024.34381.

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Nass, David. "Pearce, Amelia Earhart." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 17, no. 1 (1992): 37–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.17.1.37-38.

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In Amelia Earhart, Carol Ann Pearce has written a brief biography of the famed pioneer in American aviation. Pearce is a free lance writer who produced this work for the "Makers of America" series of biographies, under the general editorship of John Anthony Scott, an historian. The series is primarily for young and general readers.

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Yoffee, Norman. "Robert McCormick Adams: An Archaeological Biography." American Antiquity 62, no. 3 (1997): 399–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/282162.

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Robert Adams celebrated his 70th birthday on July 23, 1996. Forty years ago American Antiquity published his first journal article, which helped launch a remarkable career. Adams has influenced not only fundamental aspects of social evolutionary theory and archaeological reconnaissance surveys but also the structure of support for science in the United States and abroad. At the 1996 meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Adams was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. This essay traces the intellectual influences on Adams, the progress of his fieldwork, and the exposition and dev

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Johnstone, Karen. "Loréa T. Acuszaar Biography." Filipino American National Historical Society Journal 12, no. 1 (2024): 29–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/fil.2024.a941342.

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Abstract: This is a brief biography of Loréa T. Acuszaar, educator, counselor, advisor, and pioneer in multicultural education and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. She was among the early "Bridge Generation"—the Second Generation, American-born children of immigrant parents. Her life path was distinctly Second Generation, pursuing opportunities for education, experience, and expertise, often as a trailblazer—the first or among the first Second Generation children to go on to advanced degrees, positions of authority, leadership, and creativity; a leader inspiring upcoming generations t

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Hershberg, James G. "Reflections on George F. Kennan: An American Life." Journal of Cold War Studies 15, no. 4 (2013): 155–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_00399.

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Nine experts on Cold War history offer commentaries about John Lewis Gaddis's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George F. Kennan, the first head of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff. The commentators come from several countries and offer a wide range of perspectives about Gaddis's George F. Kennan: An American Life, published by Penguin Books in 2011. Although most of the commentators express highly favorable assessments of the book, they also raise numerous points of criticism. Two of the commentators, Barton J. Bernstein and Anders Stephanson, present extended critiques of

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Montgomery, Claude D. "David Montgomery: A Biography." International Labor and Working-Class History 82 (2012): 28–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547912000191.

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David Montgomery, union organizer, political and civil rights activist, and well-known scholar of American labor history died suddenly on December 2, 2011. A retired Yale University Farnum Professor of History, he is equally well known for his publications and skill as a teacher as he was as an advocate for equality and for his tireless support for workers and trade unions. Through his published works and lectures—in English, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish—Montgomery's influence as a historian of workers' history and their struggles for equality and survival was felt by workers, students, an

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Della Marca, Manlio, and Uwe Lübken. "“Down Beside where the Waters Flow": Reclaiming Rivers for American Studies (Introduction)." Review of International American Studies 14, no. 1 (2021): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rias.12459.

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Over the past three decades, rivers have become a fascinating and popular subject of scholarly interest, not only in the field of environmental history, where river histories have developed into a distinct subgenre, but also in the emerging field of environmental humanities. In this scholarship, rivers have often been reconceptualized as socio-natural sites where human and non-human actors interact with the natural world, generating complex legacies, path dependencies, and feedback loops. Furthermore, rivers have been described as hybrid “organic machines,” whose energy has been utilized by hu

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Heideman, Paul M. "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883–1918, Jeffrey B. Perry, New York: Columbia University Press, 2009." Historical Materialism 21, no. 3 (2013): 165–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1569206x-12341315.

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AbstractJeffrey B. Perry’s biography of Hubert Harrison restores the legacy of a central figure in the history of Black radicalism. Though largely forgotten today, Harrison was acknowledged by his early-twentieth-century peers as ‘the father of Harlem radicalism’. Author of pioneering analyses of white supremacy’s role in American capitalism, proponent of armed self-defence among African-Americans, and anti-colonial intellectual, Harrison played a central role in the development of Black politics in the United States. This review traces Harrison’s journey from socialist organiser to Black nati

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Payne, Andrew. "Henry Kissinger and American power: a political biography." International Affairs 96, no. 6 (2020): 1689–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa188.

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Blanchard, Mary W., and Robert M. Crunden. "Modernism as Biography: American Salons and European Encounters." Reviews in American History 22, no. 2 (1994): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2702895.

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Kantowicz, Edward R., Robert Muccigrosso, Suzanne Niemeyer, and Walton Beacham. "Research Guide to American Historical Biography. 3 vols." Journal of American History 79, no. 4 (1993): 1739. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2080398.

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Kollin, Susan, and Jonathan Spaulding. "Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography." Western Historical Quarterly 27, no. 4 (1996): 528. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/970551.

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Baird, Jim, and Jonathan Spaulding. "Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography." Environmental History 1, no. 4 (1996): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3985297.

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Doerfler, J. "Recent Works in North American Biography and Ethnography." Ethnohistory 55, no. 2 (2008): 331–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-066.

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Urwin, Gregory J. W. "Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution." History: Reviews of New Books 37, no. 3 (2009): 110–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2009.10527350.

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Schiavi, Michael R. "American fabulousand the re‐filming of male biography." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 18, no. 1 (2001): 53–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509200109361511.

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Braeman, John. "The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family." History: Reviews of New Books 24, no. 4 (1996): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1996.9952548.

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Emeigh, Tonya Huber. "Native American Heroines: The Biography in the Curriculum." Educational Forum 52, no. 3 (1988): 255–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131728809335491.

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Lewis, Jessica. "Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography." Reference Reviews 31, no. 7 (2017): 31–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/rr-05-2017-0124.

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Johnson, Yvonne. "Black Lives: Essays in African American Biography (review)." Biography 23, no. 4 (2000): 777–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2000.0051.

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Maxwell, Kenneth, and Anthony Depalma. "Here: A Biography of the New American Continent." Foreign Affairs 80, no. 5 (2001): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20050295.

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Rowse, Tim. "Sovereign Selves: American Indian Biography and the Law." Life Writing 7, no. 2 (2010): 223–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484520903448010.

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