Biography

When you want to find out more about notable people past and present, this is your go-to source. Explore videos, magazine articles, images, books, and more searching by person or even by the author of the biography. Full-text, peer-reviewed and updated daily to cover the who’s who of the world from the earliest known history until today. Updated daily.

Teachers and students can quickly find all kinds of information about works of literature in this handy database, covering all genres and time periods. Discover more than 36,000 plot summaries, more than one million book reviews, and over 11 thousand author interviews – just to name a few! It also features an expansive collection of full-text poems, short stories and novels!

Interested in volcanoes, astronomy, or scientists like Einstein? Research to your heart’s content in hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.  Full text.

Kids in elementary through middle school can learn, research, and grow with this award-winning content. Features include “Behind the Headlines,” to put the news in context for kids, “Biography Center,” which houses more than 10,000 biographies of historical and contemporary figures, as well as a built-in dictionary and easy-to-navigate atlas.