San Antonio College Library

"Over 10 years in the making, American National Biography is a fascinating study of the people who have shaped the United States. Why replace the Dictionary of American Biography instead of merely updating it through supplements? Because the editors include new scholarship and people who were missed in the original, especially women and ethnic minorities. Numbering 24 volumes and containing 17,500 entries, the work offers readable, informative, and...

Although there have been some isolated instances of successful biography of Africans, there is no single resource that provides comprehensive coverage. Older reference works focus unevenly on the colonial period, European adventurers, and Egyptian dynasties. There is very little attention given to the full range of African lives, and rarely is the continent treated as a whole. As a result our picture of Africa's history and its people is incomplete....

Contains concise biographies on men and women who made memorable contributions to U.S. history between 1750 and 1950.

An abridgement of the eight-volume Dictionary of American history,publlished in 1976.

Historical, statistical, biographical and bibliographical information about The Gambia, Africa and its leaders.