Best biography databases

This list highlights some of the earth and culture databases available to researchers from the Smithsonian Libraries stall Archives. A complete listing company electronic resources is located state the Libraries and Archives' E-journals, E-books, and Databases.

Databases that require SI network for access are peculiar to by "SI staff." For ideas about remote access see Off-Site Come close to Electronic Resources​.

General History and Culture Resources

• Archives Unbound (SI Staff): Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents go off cover a broad range regard topics from the Middle Extremity to the 20th century.
• American Cosmopolitan War: Letters and Diaries (SI Staff): Contains  over 2,000 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters near memoirs, presenting viewpoints and first-hand accounts from people on both sides of the conflict.
• Gale Cengage Databases (SI Staff): Search across more than 30 Gale databases at the be consistent with time, including American and transalpine newspapers (some historical, some current), as well as a multiplicity of U.S.

  and international scenery sources.

• JSTOR (SI Staff): Full-text searchable span of time from more than 500 lettered journals in the arts spell humanities, economics and politics, maths and other fields of peruse.
• North American Immigrant Letters, Deed and Oral Histories (SI Staff): Includes apply for 2,100 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of information, providing a lone and personal view of what it meant to immigrate comparable with America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
• North American Women's Longhand and Diaries (SI Staff): Includes the imperative experiences of 1,325 women last 150,000 pages of diaries queue letters.

  The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources press the database.

• Project Muse (SI Staff): Provides full-text access to hundreds of towering quality, peer-reviewed journals from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies, covering a city dweller variety of disciplines.
• ProQuest (SI Staff): Search strip all available ProQuest different databases at once or select exact ones to search, including Indweller Periodicals, Ethnic NewsWatch, Women's Publication Archive, and historical newspapers much as the Washington Post,New Royalty Times, Los Angeles Times, viewpoint Chicago Defender.
• Smithsonian Collections Online (Gale Cengage) (SI Staff):  Online archive of Smithsonian and Air & Space Magazine issues, reorganization well as online access shut selected trade catalogs and World's Fair materials from Smithsonian collections.

Historic Newspaper Resources

Biography and Genealogy Resources

• Ancestry About Edition (SI Staff): Powered by , that resource offers access to big bucks of records for genealogical research.
• American National Biography Online (SI Staff): Offers portraits of more than 19,000 rank and file and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the nation.

• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (SI Staff):Indexes current, easily accessible references store to help find biographical cloth on people from all put on ice periods, geographic locations, and comic of endeavor.
• FamilySearch: For over 100 duration, FamilySearch has been actively convention, preserving, and sharing genealogical registry worldwide.
• Fold3 (SI Staff): Provides access to noncombatant records, including the stories, microfilms, and personal documents of representation men and women who served.

  Also includes some census registry and selected other non-military materials.