Suggested Catalog Searches

If you search for a person in the catalog (last name, first name) and the call number is "B [name]", it's on the Biography shelves.

• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Ancient World
• Biographical Dictionaries
• Genealogy
• North American History
• World War II

Databases

• Gale Biography Resource Center
  Includes biographical information on over 300,000 people throughout history and around the world.
   
• EbscoHOST
  Visit MasterFILE Premiere to search for articles on history topics.
  Not in the library? Please have your library card number on hand.
   
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
  Search encyclopedia entries for history and biography information.
  Not in the library? Please have your library card number on hand.
   
• Ancestry.com Library Edition (In Library Use Only)
  The largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy.
   

Websites

• American Memory, from the Library of Congress
  Find written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
   
• Biography.com
  Short biographies of famous people throughout history.
   
• History.com
  Short essays on important events throughout history (This Day in History).
   
• HyperHistory
  Generate timelines based on people or events, and look at maps of human migration.
   
• National Archives: Genealogists/Family Historians
  Government resources for genealogists including census, military, and immigration records.
   
• Journal of San Diego History
  Free online archive (1955-present) from the San Diego Historical Society.