To support the 2010 Race & Pedagogy National Conference, Collins Library is showcasing online, full-text resources you can use to explore all kinds of issues related to diversity. Today, we’re highlighting resources for researching people and personal narratives:
Biographies Plus Illustrated
Contains more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries, and more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects. Biographies are searchable by name, profession, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and more.
In the First Person
An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives. It indexes close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
Contemporary Women’s Issues
Provides full text access to global information on women in 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets.
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