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Getting Started Guide: History: Biographical Sources

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Historians

Clio's Lives : Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781760461447
Making History: The Storytellers who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen
Call Number: D13 .C5895 2022
ISBN: 9781982195786
World History - a Genealogy by Carolien Stolte (Editor); Alicia Schrikker (Editor)
Call Number: Online - Open Access - JSTOR
ISBN: 9789400602854

Historical Figures

Ahead of Their Time: A Biographical Dictionary of Risk-Taking Women by Joyce D. Duncan
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 0313316600
Publication Date: 2001-11-30
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Tang through Ming 618-1644 by Lily Xiao Hong Lee
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780765643155
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Dictionary of African Historical Biography by Mark R. Lipschutz; R. Kent Rasmussen
Call Number: DT352.6 .L56 1986
ISBN: 0520066111
A Dictionary of Popes by Michael J. Walsh (editor)
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Call Number: Online - Oxford Reference
ISBN: 9780191795459
Dictionary of World Biography by Barry Jones
Call Number: Online - Open Access - JSTOR
ISBN: 9781760464677
Leaders of the American Civil War: A Biographical and Historiographical Dictionary by Charles F. Ritter (Editor); Jon L. Wakelyn (Editor)
ISBN: 9781315062297
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History by Bonnie G. Smith (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1121 .O93 2008
ISBN: 9780195148909
Vice Presidents: A Biographical Dictionary by L. Edward Purcell
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781438130712

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