Biography Resource Center

Gale Digital Collections  Biography Resource Center’s comprehensiveness is unmatched 427,000+ biographies on 335,000+ people Nearly 300 periodicals; more than 538,000 full-text articles (only full-text) 24,700+ photos/portraits 19,000+ vetted web sites  Powered by more than 50 years’ experience publishing biographies, your students will find authoritative content they can trust 135+ respected Thomson Gale biographical reference titles 960+ volumes Print reference valued at more than $145,000!  Whether it’s latest news or new perspectives, the Biography Resource Center is relevant your students’ research needs Continuous updating--new/updated biographies added weekly, periodicals added daily Recent news briefs added on high profile individuals twice weekly

Gale Digital Collections  The broad range of biographical sources in the Biography Resource Center supports study across disciplines One-stop resource for biographies about notables in literature, history, art, gender and multicultural studies, religion, politics, entertainment, etc.  Biography Resource Center includes a wealth of academic content Biographies from Gale, St. James Press, Macmillan, and Scribner imprint titles provide scholarly overviews of individuals’ lives Respected historical biography offered in the Dictionary of American Biography Includes more than 125 refereed/peer-reviewed journals  Biography Resource Center provides reliable information Many biographies are written by experts in the field Integrity of the biographies is maintained—no open source or social publishing  Find in-depth treatment of notable individuals in the Biography Resource Center Biographies range from 500-3,000+ words each Many figures have multiple articles for varying perspectives on a person’s life Extensive further reading sections included in most entries for continued research …and Collegiate Study

Gale Digital Collections Mapping Biography RC to HISTORY Curriculum United States History to 1865 This course examines central issues and events in the history of the territories that became the United States, and the peoples who lived there, from the late 16th to the middle of the 19th centuries. Among the topics that will be considered are the territorial expansions of Europeans into the Americas; the creation of Anglo-American colonies; the social, political, and cultural orders of British North America; the creation of an independent American republic in the Revolution; and the destruction of that first republic in the War Between the States.

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Mapping Biography RC to ENGLISH Curriculum Introduction to American Literature The United States is home to many literary traditions, sometimes seen as separate but all intertwined and interconnected. The "classic" American literature that originates in New England is just one part of a dialogue that includes Native American, Latino American, and African-American traditions older than the United States itself, as well as Asian Pacific American and ethnic European traditions that reach back well into the nineteenth century. This course offers an introduction to these literary cultures of the United States, with emphasis on the richness of their range and variety. This course will include texts by such writers as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Bharati Mukherjee, Gish Jen, and Toni Kushner.

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Mapping Biography RC to AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES Curriculum Introduction to African-American Literature This course provides a broad survey of African American and African Diasporic literature, from the 1700s to the present. Students will read poetry, fiction, autobiography, and essays by a range of authors, including Phillis Wheatley, Mary Seacole, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Caryl Phillips, Edwidge Danticat, and Carroll Parrott Blue.

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