Poll’s Biography Websites


Jane Addams
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon/jane_1
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/ja_bio.html
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/addams/peace_1
http://search.eb.com/women/article-9003693
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/addams/
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=6


Hans Christian Andersen
http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/liv/minibio/foedested_e.html
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/author/a/andersen.html


Lucille Ball
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=179
http://www.britannica.com/women/article-9011982
http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biography_story/547:2525/1/Lucille_Ball.htm


Ludwig Van Beethoven
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/education/beethoven.html

Alexander Graham Bell
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/bell/
http://smithsonianeducation.org/spotlight/inventors1.html#bell

George Washington Carver
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/scientists/carver
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/gwcoverview.htm
http://www.planet-science.com/outthere/index.html?page=/outthere/black_history/index.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/carver/
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/carver.html
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/30.html


Cesar Chavez
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/all/chavez
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/chavez/
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/chh/bio/chavez_c.htm


Bessie Coleman
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/coleman/
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=182
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/coleman_b.htm
http://www.bessiecolemanfoundation.org/


Christopher Columbus
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial/columbus_1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/columbus_christopher.shtml
http://www.biography.com/bio4kids/bio4kids-meet-columbus.jsp
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/columbus.htm
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/columbus/

Confucius
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0813210.html
http://www.factmonster.com/biography/var/confucius.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHPHIL/CONF.HTM

Captain Cook
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/cook/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/captaincook_01.shtml

Marie Curie
Kids InfoBits
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/curie/
http://www.aip.org/history/curie/
http://www.britannica.com/women/article-9028252
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/curie.html


Charles Dickens
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/author/d/dickens.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/animation.shtml
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/ei_whowasdickens.html

Frederick Douglass
Kids InfoBits
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/progress/douglass_1
http://www.biography.com/bio4kids/bio4kids-meet-douglass.jsp
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/douglass/
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/douglass
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/douglass_f.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/history/spotlight_november.html



Duke Ellington
Kids InfoBits
http://pbskids.org/jazz/nowthen/duke.html
http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/class/ellington/de_match.asp
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/ellington
http://rholmes.myweb.uga.edu/ellington-bio.htm

Terry Fox
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/biography/var/terryfox.html

Benjamin Franklin
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/leaders/franklinb
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/franklin_benjamin.shtml
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_subject.html#people
http://smithsonianeducation.org/spotlight/start.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/franklin/
http://www.biography.com/bio4kids/bio4kids-meet-benjamin-franklin.jsp
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/articles/0,6709,1076243,00.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/franklin.html
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/franklin.html

Jim Henson
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0763412.html
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0921579.html
http://www.factmonster.com/biography/var/jimhenson.html

Helen Keller
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/keller/
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=91
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,214048,00.html
http://www.britannica.com/women/article-9045008
http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=1&TopicID=129
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/helen_keller_bio.asp
http://www.afb.org/braillebug/hkmuseum.asp
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_keller.hcsp
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/sullivan/
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=208

Abraham Lincoln
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/presidents/lincoln
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/abolitin_1
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/lincoln2_1
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/gettysbg_1
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil/lincoln_1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/lincoln_abraham.shtml
http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_subject.html#people
http://smithsonianeducation.org/spotlight/start.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/presidents/abrahamlincoln.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/lincoln/

Mayo Brothers
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0832358.html

Rosa Parks
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/parks/
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4809
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,1122822,00.html
http://www.britannica.com/women/article-9001689
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=117
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/parks_r.htm


Louis Pasteur
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/pasteur/
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/pasteur.html


Maurice Richard
SIRS Discovere Deluxe
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0841805.html
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0109568.html


Jackie Robinson
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
Kids InfoBits
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/robinson_jackie.htm
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/articles/0,6709,714576,00.html
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9460813
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query
http://www.jackierobinson.com/about/bio.html
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/robinson/

Eleanor Roosevelt
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4809
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,1122822,00.html
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=128
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/eroosevelt/
http://www.britannica.com/women/article-9083895


Sojourner Truth
SIRS Discoverer Deluxe
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9511284
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,203485,00.html
http://www.michiganhistorymagazine.com/extra/women/
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/truth/
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=158
http://www.britannica.com/women/article-9073571

Wright Brothers
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/wright/
http://smithsonianeducation.org/spotlight/start.html
http://pbskids.org/wayback/flight/feature_wright.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wright/about.html
http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/wright.html