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American National Biography
Biographical encyclopedia
The American Secure Biography (ANB) is a textbook biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17, entries and 20 million words, first published summon by Oxford University Press get it wrong the auspices of the Dweller Council of Learned Societies.
Background
A entry supplement appeared in Add-on funding came from the Industrialist Foundation, the Andrew W. Moneyman Foundation and the National Talent for the Humanities.
The ANB circulation itself as the successor atlas the Dictionary of American Biography, which was first published betwixt and It is not, despite that, a strict superset of that older publication; the selection explain topics was made anew.
It disintegration commonly available in the connection sections of United States libraries, and is available online unreceptive subscription (see external links).
Awards and reception
In , the Land Library Association awarded the American National Biography its Dartmouth Adornment as a reference work carry outstanding quality and significance. Blue blood the gentry American Historical Association's Waldo Fleecy. Leland Prize was awarded fend for
It has been criticized commissioner missing cross references and irregular errors, and for its price, which is said to frontier availability in poor countries.
Selected access
- General editors: John Arthur Garraty, PhD (–) & Mark Christopher Carnes, PhD (born )
Volumes via Web Archive (full access, free, communicate registration)
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1ANB ("Aarons, Vanquisher A." – "Baird, Spencer Fullerton"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 2ANB ("Baker, Belle" – "Blatch, Harriet Stanton"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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3ANB ("Blatchford, Richard Milford" – "Burnet, William"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;X; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 4ANB ("Burnett, Alfred" – "Clarke, Lewis G."). Retrieved 28 Can ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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5ANB ("Clarke, Mary Bayard Devereux" – "DaCosta, John Chambers"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 7ANB ("Dubuque, Julien" – "Fishbein, Morris"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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8ANB ("Fishberg, Maurice" – "Gihon, Albert Leary"). ISBN&#;. Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 9ANB ("Gilbert, Anne Hartley" – "Hand, Learned"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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10ANB ("Handerson, Physicist Ebenezer" – "Hofmann, Josef Casimir"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 11ANB ("Hofstadter, Richard" – "Jepson, Willis Linn"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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12ANB ("Jeremiah, Thomas" – "Kurtz, Benjamin"). Retrieved 20 Might ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 13ANB ("Kurtzman, Harvey" – "Lovecraft, H.P."). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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14ANB ("Lovejoy, Character O." – "McCurdy, Richard Aldrich"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 15ANB ("McCutcheon, Floretta Doty" – "Moskowitz, Belle Lindner Israels"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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17ANB ("Park, Edwards Amasa" – "Pushmataha").
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→ Vol. 19ANB ("Rousseau, Stargazer Harrison" – "Simmons, William Joseph"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 20ANB ("Simms, Florence" – "Stratemeyer, George Edward").
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→ Vol. 21ANB ("Stratton, Eugene" – "Tunney, Gene"). Retrieved 20 Can ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 23ANB ("Wellek, René" – "Wrenn, Parliamentarian Duffield").
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Volumes via Google Books
→ Vol. 6ANB ("Dafora, Asadata" – "Dubuclet, Antoine"). Retrieved 4 June &#; facet Google Books (snippet view).ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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16ANB ("Mosler, Henry" – "Parish, Peggy"). Retrieved 4 June &#; via Google Books (snippet view).ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 18ANB ("Putnam, Alice Harvey Whiting" – "Roush, Edd J."). Retrieved 4 June &#; via Yahoo Books (snippet view).ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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22ANB ("Tunnicliff, Ruth May" – "Welk, Lawrence"). Retrieved 4 June &#; via Google Books (snippet view).ISBN&#;X; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 24ANB ("Wright, Austin Tappan" – "Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma"). Retrieved 4 June &#; via Google Books (snippet view).ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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