Subject Guides: COM 201: Speech: Biographies

COM 201: Speech: Biographies

Biography Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Lets you find biographies by name, occupation, ethnicity or nationality, birth or death year, or place of birth or death.
Biography Index Past and Present This link opens in a new window
Lists biographies and autobiographies of people from all over the world.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
for U.S. and Canadian people
A comprehensive bibliography of the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database comprises over 530,000 entries for periodicals dating back to the 1950s.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
for non-U.S. / non-Canadian people
Historical abstracts covering the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada).

How to Find a Book
This video walks you through the process of searching for a book and identifying its location.

Biographies of speakers
biograph* OR autobiograph* AND speech* OR addresses OR "public speaking" (subject)
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limit to books, ebooks, biographies

Browse biographies
Add keywords to the middle and lower search boxes in the results screen, if you want to be more specific. E.g., athlete or musician.

Subjects: Communications, Course Guides

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