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Print Encyclopedias

Click here to view a list of print biographical encyclopedias available in the UWSP Libraries.

American National Biography
Call Number: E 176 .A43 1999 Reference Room (CCC 104)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Call Number: DA 28 .O95 2004 Reference Collection (CCC 130)
Notable Sports Figures
Call Number: GV 697 .A1 N68 2004 Reference Room (CCC 104)
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Call Number: HQ 1121 .O93 2008 Reference Collection (CCC 130)
African American National Biography
Call Number: E 185.96 .A4466 2008 Reference Collection (CCC 130)
Notable Native Americans
Call Number: E 89 .N67 1995 Reference Room (CCC 104)
100 Entertainers Who Changed America
Call Number: CT 220 .A15 2013 Reference Room (CCC 104)
Asian Americans
Call Number: E 184 .A75 A842648 2014 Reference Collection (CCC 130)
Modern American Environmentalists
Call Number: GE 55 .M63 2009 Reference Collection (CCC 130)
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Call Number: Q 141 .D5 Reference Collection (CCC 130)
Inventions and Inventors
Call Number: T 20 .I59 2002 Reference Collection (CCC 130)
Crimes of the Centuries
Call Number: HV 6783 .C88 2016 Reference Room (CCC 104)
Great American Women in the Nineteenth Century
Call Number: CT 3260 .A4725 2005 Reference Collection (CCC 130)
Encyclopedia of War
Call Number: U 27 .E48 2012 Reference Collection (CCC 130)
A to Z of Women in Science and Math
Call Number: Q 141 .Y675 1999 Reference Collection (CCC 130)
Broadway: an encyclopedia of theater and American culture
Call Number: PN 2277.N5 B62 2010 Reference Collection (CCC 130)

Online Encyclopedias

Notable Sports Figures by Dana R. Barnes
Publication Date: 2003
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Publication Date: 2008
Notable Native Americans
Publication Date: 1994
Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
Publication Date: 2005
American Environmental Leaders
Publication Date: 2018
Great Lives from History: Scientists and Science, Second Edition
Publication Date: 2022
Gale Biographies: Popular People
Publication Date: 2018

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Library Databases

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