Discover the men and women behind some of the most famous inventions and innovations of history including Alfred Nobel, Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, Louis Daguerre, and many, many more!

Includes Franklin Pierce, Frederick Douglass, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Kit Carson, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Jefferson Davis, and many more.

Biographical information on prominent Americans and Canadians

Spotlight Biography: Native Americans Geronimo Black Hawk Pocahontas biographies

Congressional Biographical Directory United States Congress

Includes Kelly Miller, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Edward Alexander Bouche, David Blackwell, Benjamin Banneker, and more.

Massachusetts John Hancock Samuel Adams John Adams Robert Treat Paine Elbridge Gerry New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett William Whipple Matthew Thornton Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins William Ellery Connecticut Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott New York William Floyd Philip Li

Josiah Bartlett John Wentworth, Jr. Massachusetts John Hancock Samuel Adams Elbridge Gerry Francis Dana James Lovell Samuel Holten  Rhode Island William Ellery Henry Marchant John Collins Connecticut Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington Oliver Wolcott Titus Hosmer Andrew Adams New York James Duane Franci

John Langdon Nicholas Gilman Massachusetts Rufus King Nathaniel Gorham Connecticut Roger Sherman William Samuel Johnson New York Alexander Hamilton New Jersey William Livingston David Brearley William Paterson Jonathan Dayton Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin Thomas Mifflin Robert Morris George Clymer

African American biography : Tiger Woods Oprah Winfrey Denzel Washington Harriet Tubman Colin Powell Gordon Parks Carol Moseley-Braun Martin Luther King Marion Jones Gregory Himes Louis Farrakhan Duke Ellington Bill Cosby Shirley Chisholm Ray Charles George Washington Carver Halle Berry

Presidents of the United States : George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman Dwight Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan George Bush

Includes John Adams, Aaron Burr, Ronald Reagan, George Read, John Locke, Robert E. Lee, Aaron Burr, John Adams. and many more.

Includes Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, Crazy Horse, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull, Billy the Kid, and many more.

Jane Addams Leonard Bernstein William Jennings Bryan Cesar Chavez Buffalo Bill Cody Amelia Earhart Duke Ellington Harry Houdini King Kamehameha I George C. Marshall George S. Patton Jr. John Joseph Pershing John Philip Sousa Elizabeth Cady Stanton Frank Lloyd Wright

At Texas Instruments in Mesquite, Texas, Kilby proved the concept of the integrated electronic circuit, thus making modern electronics possible.