Online Features

The ANB Online is a dynamic, easy-to-use resource.

Content
  • Over 18,300 biographies, including the 17,435 original biographies from the print edition
  • New biographies added and others revised semi-annually -- including articles on recently deceased notables as well as figures from the past who were not subjects in the print edition
  • Over 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History provide historical and social context to the biographies.
  • Over 2,500 illustrations with more added with each update
  • Regular updates to the bibliographies
Searching

You may search the ANB Online in a number of ways:

  • By full text (words and phrases)
  • By subject name
  • By gender
  • By occupation or realm of renown
  • By birth date
  • By birthplace
  • By death date
  • By contributor name
Special Collections

A special search feature allows users to guide their research with specially selected collections that celebrate the diversity of American history: Black History, Women's History, Asian Pacific American Heritage, American Indian Heritage, and Hispanic Heritage.

A Teacher's Guide to Using ANB Online

ANB Online is a valuable resource that can be actively incorporated into classroom lessons. To assist teachers in fully utilizing ANB Online, we have prepared a Teacher's Guide to Using ANB Online. Developed with the participation of librarians and teachers, the Teacher's Guide offers six lessons that highlight the importance and value of studying biography as an end in itself and as a starting point for doing further research into the lives of those who shaped the American experience. To view the Guide, click here.

Research Ideas

Students can now jump-start their research by browsing through pre-selected lists of articles from the ANB Online and the Oxford Companion to United States History, encyclopedia content that supports the 19,000 biographies. Selected by Oxford editors, the 12 research topics cover American Literature, Arts in America, Black History, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Depression and New Deal, Frontier and Western Expansion, Gilded Age, Hispanic American Heritage, Native American Heritage, Women's History, and World War II.
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Links
  • Subscribers to ANB Online and the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography can now benefit from cross-referenced entries linking biographies in the two sites. Articles in the ANB Online link to their counterparts in the Oxford DNB and vice versa. How is Benjamin Franklin portrayed in the context of British history? The ability to easily compare treatments of the subjects is a valuable research and teaching tool.
  • ANB Online also features extensive hyperlinks between articles and editorially-selected links to valuable Online Resources.

View the ANB Online User Guide
Printable version of the ANB Online User Guide

To view ANB Online articles visit the Biography of the Day or click on the photos on our homepage.


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