Warwick Public Library

Biographies

Featured Resources


Discovering Collection

A collection of reference materials and magazines for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science and Social Studies. Grades 5 - 12.

World Book

The World Book Encyclopedia with web links and current events.

Selected Web Sites

Biography
http://www.infoplease.com/people.html

Search by name or one of the categories. Information varies from minimal to detailed.

Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/

Search or browse 25,000 biographies of notable personalities from antiquity to the present. The profiles range from one paragraph to several.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/

Biographies of women who contributed to our culture.

National Inventor's Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp

Hundreds of inventions and inventors.

Presidents of the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

Presidential biographies from the book The Presidents of the United States of America written by Frank Freidel and Hugh S. Sidey (contributing author).

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