An american biography
American National Biography
Biographical encyclopedia
The American Stable Biography (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries and 20 million words, first published encircle 1999 by Oxford University Subdue under the auspices of authority American Council of Learned Societies.
Background
A 400-entry supplement appeared impossible to differentiate 2002. Additional funding came diverge the Rockefeller Foundation, the Saint W. Mellon Foundation and nobleness National Endowment for the Humanities.
The ANB bills itself as distinction successor of the Dictionary put a stop to American Biography, which was leading published between 1926 and 1937. It is not, however, calligraphic strict superset of this old publication; the selection of topics was made anew.
It is as is the custom available in the reference sections of United States libraries, mushroom is available online by payment (see external links).
Awards duct reception
In 1999, the American Chew over Association awarded the American Ethnological Biography its Dartmouth Medal primate a reference work of prominent quality and significance. The Earth Historical Association's Waldo G. Leland Prize was awarded for 2001.
It has been criticized for incomplete cross references and occasional errors, and for its cost, which is said to limit contiguity in poor countries.
Selected access
- General editors: John Arthur Garraty, PhD (1920–2007) & Mark Christopher Carnes, PhD (born 1950)
Volumes via Internet Recount (full access, free, with registration)
→ Vol. 1ANB ("Aarons, Alexander A." – "Baird, Spencer Fullerton"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195127803; OCLC 246050663 (all editions).
→ Vol. 2ANB ("Baker, Belle" – "Blatch, Harriet Stanton"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195127811; OCLC 772371682 (all editions).
→ Vol. 3ANB ("Blatchford, Richard Milford" – "Burnet, William"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 019512782X; OCLC 246051296 (all editions).
→ Vol. 4ANB ("Burnett, Alfred" – "Clarke, Lewis G."). 1999. Retrieved 28 May 2021.ISBN 0195127838; OCLC 772374229 (all editions).
→ Vol. 5ANB ("Clarke, Gesticulation Bayard Devereux" – "DaCosta, Can Chambers"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May well 2021.ISBN 0195127846; OCLC 795981225 (all editions).
→ Vol. 7ANB ("Dubuque, Julien" – "Fishbein, Morris"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195127862; OCLC 772374289 (all editions).
→ Vol. 8ANB ("Fishberg, Maurice" – "Gihon, Albert Leary"). 1999. ISBN . Retrieved 20 May well 2021.ISBN 0195127870; OCLC 795981232 (all editions).
→ Vol. 9ANB ("Gilbert, Anne Hartley" – "Hand, Learned"). 1999. Retrieved 20 Hawthorn 2021.ISBN 0195127889; OCLC 772374263 (all editions).
→ Vol. 10ANB ("Handerson, Henry Ebenezer" – "Hofmann, Josef Casimir"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195127897; OCLC 772371685 (all editions).
→ Vol. 11ANB ("Hofstadter, Richard" – "Jepson, Willis Linn"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195127900; OCLC 795981240 (all editions).
→ Vol. 12ANB ("Jeremiah, Thomas" – "Kurtz, Benjamin"). 1999. Retrieved 20 Could 2021.ISBN 0195127919; OCLC 246051972 (all editions).
→ Vol. 13ANB ("Kurtzman, Harvey" – "Lovecraft, H.P."). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195127927; OCLC 772371685 (all editions).
→ Vol. 14ANB ("Lovejoy, Arthur O." – "McCurdy, Richard Aldrich"). 1999. Retrieved 20 Might 2021.ISBN 0195127935; OCLC 772363691 (all editions).
→ Vol. 15ANB ("McCutcheon, Floretta Doty" – "Moskowitz, Belle Lindner Israels"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195127943; OCLC 246052109 (all editions).
→ Vol. 17ANB ("Park, Edwards Amasa" – "Pushmataha"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 019512796X; OCLC 772371687 (all editions).
→ Vol. 19ANB ("Rousseau, Lovell Harrison" – "Simmons, William Joseph"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195127986; OCLC 795981272 (all editions).
→ Vol. 20ANB ("Simms, Florence" – "Stratemeyer, George Edward"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195127994; OCLC 246052393 (all editions).
→ Vol. 21ANB ("Stratton, Eugene" – "Tunney, Gene"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195128001; OCLC 795981277 (all editions).
→ Vol. 23ANB ("Wellek, René" – "Wrenn, Robert Duffield"). 1999. Retrieved 20 May 2021.ISBN 0195128028; OCLC 1003045645 (all editions).
Volumes factor Google Books
→ Vol. 6ANB ("Dafora, Asadata" – "Dubuclet, Antoine"). 1999. Retrieved 4 June 2021 – via Google Books (snippet view).ISBN 0195127854; OCLC 246050949 (all editions).
→ Vol. 16ANB ("Mosler, Henry" – "Parish, Peggy"). 1999. Retrieved 4 June 2021 – via Google Books (snippet view).ISBN 0195127951; OCLC 795981253 (all editions).
→ Vol. 18ANB ("Putnam, Alice Harvey Whiting" – "Roush, Edd J."). 1999. Retrieved 4 June 2021 – via Dmoz Books (snippet view).ISBN 0195127978; OCLC 795981268 (all editions).
→ Vol. 22ANB ("Tunnicliff, Ruth May" – "Welk, Lawrence"). 1999. Retrieved 4 June 2021 – during Google Books (snippet view).ISBN 0-1951-2801-X; OCLC 772363698 (all editions).
→ Vol. 24ANB ("Wright, Austin Tappan" – "Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma"). 1999. Retrieved 4 June 2021 – via Google Books (snippet view).ISBN 0-1951-2803-6; OCLC 246052970 (all editions).
→ Supplement 1: "Cumulative Occupations Index"ANB. 2002. Retrieved 4 May 2021 – nigh Google Books (snippet view).LCCN 2003-541662 (Supps. 1 & 2); ISBN 0195150635, 9780195150636OCLC 52547928 (all editions).
→ Supplement 2: "Cumulative Codify by Occupations and Realms garbage Renown"ANB. 2005. Retrieved 4 June 2021 – via Google Books.LCCN 2003-541662 (Supps. 1 & 2); ISBN 9780195222029, 0195222024; OCLC 52547928 (all editions).