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Biography & History
Select a database by a subject category listed below,
then enter your Glenview Library card number as prompted.
Most databases are available remotely. Databases available only in the Library
are noted in red. Research databases are arranged by subject or A-Z by title.
America's Obituaries & Death Notices
Newspaper obituaries and death notices in an interface that allows searching by name, date range, or text within the obituary.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
BGMI provides citations to biographical dictionaries, who's whos, subject encyclopedias, and literary criticism as an index to reference indexes.
Biography in Context
Full text biographies from over 130 reference sources and access to biographical articles from more than 265 magazines.
Chicago Tribune
Detailed indexing for The Chicago Tribune with coverage back to 1985.
Chicago Tribune Archive
Useful for finding obituaries and news articles from 1849-1984.
E-Journal Index
A research tool for finding full-text electronic publications (magazines, journals, newspapers) available through Glenview Public Library’s databases. Search by title, keyword or browse by subject heading.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
History Study Center
Digitized primary and secondary sources with documents and articles organized under widely-studied topics, with reference works, images, video clips and links to 2,000 websites.
Illinois Statewide Catalog
SILC is the Illinois catalog of materials for libraries throughout the state.
Newsbank: America's Newspapers
The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers from around the United States. Select newspapers by state or region.
OCLC FirstSearch
A gateway to multiple databases for articles and publications in business, management, science, humanities, education, health and medicine including ClasePeriodica, ERIC and Medline.
Proquest Newsstand
Detailed indexing to the following selection newspaper titles: USA TODAY, Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, the Advocate and more.
SIRS Knowledge Source
Excellent database for student assignments on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political, and global issues with graphics, charts, maps, and diagrams.
World News Digest
Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and a live newsfeed from Reuters® to answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures of the last 60+ years.
WorldCat.org
The WorldCat library catalog lets you search for books and audio visual materials in library collections in our community, throughout Illinois and in thousands of libraries around the country and the world.