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Dates:
Books: 1962 - present; Articles: 1983 - present
Description:

Gale in Context Biography (formerly known as Biography in Context and Biography Resource Center) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines over 600,000 biographies from over 170 sources, with over one million entries from the Complete Marquis Who's Who®. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.

Materials Indexed: Biographical Information, Journal Articles, Magazine Articles Database Type: Electronic Book Collection, Index Interface Language: English Materials Language: English Subject: American Indian Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian American Studies, Biography, History (U.S.), History (World), Native American Studies Broad Category: Humanities, Reference, Social Sciences