LibGuides: Biographies: Historical

International (Historical)

Albert by Jules Stewart
Call Number: DA559.A1 S74 2012
ISBN: 9781848859777
Publication Date: 2011-12-20
The Biography of Mahommah J. Baquaqua by Paul E. Lovejoy; Robin Law (Editor); Sammuel Moore
ISBN: 1558762485
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
The Black Calhouns by Gail Lumet Buckley
Call Number: General Stacks | CT274.C34 B83 2016
ISBN: 9780802124548
Publication Date: 2016-02-02
The Female King of Colonial Nigeria by Nwando Achebe
ISBN: 9780253222480
Publication Date: 2011-02-21
Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
Call Number: DS481.G3 G824 2014
ISBN: 9780385532297
Publication Date: 2014-04-15
Joan of Arc by Stephen W. Richey
Call Number: DC103 .R52 2003
ISBN: 0275981037
Publication Date: 2003-10-30
John Newton: from Disgrace to Amazing Grace by Jonathan Aitken; Philip Yancey (Foreword by)
Call Number: BX5199.N55 A78 2007
ISBN: 9781581348484
Publication Date: 2007-06-07
The Knight Who Saved England by Richard Brooks
Call Number: DA209.P4 B76 2014
ISBN: 9781849085502
Publication Date: 2014-04-22
The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli by Richard Aldous
Call Number: DA562 .A53 2007
ISBN: 9780393349634
Publication Date: 2007-09-17
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the birth of a revolution by Mary Gabriel
Call Number: HX39.5 .G334 2012
ISBN: 9780316066129
Publication Date: 2012-11-13
Pan-African History by Marika Sherwood; Hakim Adi
Call Number: DT30 .A35 2003
ISBN: 0415173523
Publication Date: 2003-03-28
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s legendary voyage of death and discovery down the Amazon by Buddy Levy
Call Number: E125.O6 L48 2011
ISBN: 9780553807509
Publication Date: 2011-02-22
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
Call Number: DK258.6 .R374 2014
ISBN: 9781250020208
Publication Date: 2014-06-03

United States (Historical)

See biographies of United States Presidents under "Leaders."

Booker T. Washington by Raymond W. Smock
ISBN: 9781566637251
Publication Date: 2009-06-16
The Charles H. Parrishes by Lawrence H. Williams
Call Number: BX6455.P37 W55 2003
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
A Colored Women in a White World by Mary Church Terrell; Nellie Y. McKay (Introduction by)
Call Number: E185.97.T47 A3 1996
ISBN: 0783814216
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
A Cry for Justice: Daniel Rudd and his Life in Black Catholicism, Journalism, and Activism, 1854-1933 by Gary B. Agee
Call Number: E185.97.R83 A43 2011
ISBN: 9781557289759
Publication Date: 2011-12-04
Henry Ford by Vincent Curcio
Call Number: CT275.F68 C87 2013
ISBN: 0195316924
Publication Date: 2013-05-16
His Truth Is Marching On : John Lewis and the power of hope by Jon Meacham; John Lewis (Afterword by)
Call Number: Leisure Reading | E840.8.L43 M43 2020
ISBN: 9781984855022
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
Call Number: E185.97.W55 G53 2008
ISBN: 9780060519216
Publication Date: 2008-03-11
A biography of Ida B.Wells and the Campaign against Lynching
John Brown in Historical Memory by Michael Daigh
Call Number: E451 .D35 2015eb
ISBN: 0786496177
Publication Date: 2015-04-27
The Life of Benjamin Banneker by Silvio A. Bedini
Call Number: QB36.B22 B4 1999
ISBN: 0938420593
Publication Date: 1998-12-02
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable; G. Valmont Thomas (Read by)
Call Number: BP223.Z8 L5794 2012
ISBN: 9780670022205
Publication Date: 2011-04-04
Neil Armstrong by Jay Barbree; John Glenn (Introduction by)
Call Number: TL789.85.A75 B37 2014
ISBN: 9781250040718
Publication Date: 2014-07-08
Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art by Lindsey R. Swindall
Call Number: E185.97.R63 S948
ISBN: 9781442207936
Publication Date: 2013-02-07
The Radical King by Martin Luther King; Cornel West (Editor); Martin Luther King
Call Number: E185.97.K5 A5 2015
ISBN: 9780807012826
Publication Date: 2015-01-13
Rebecca's Revival by Jon F. Sensbach
Call Number: BV3785.P74 S46 2005
ISBN: 0674016890
Publication Date: 2005-03-30
Samuel Adams by John K. Alexander
Call Number: E302.6.A2 A543 2011
ISBN: 9780742570337
Publication Date: 2011-05-16
Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America by Tonya Bolden
Call Number: F702.C85 B65 2014
ISBN: 9781419708466
Publication Date: 2014-01-07
The Slaves' War by Andrew Ward
Call Number: E464 .W29 2008
ISBN: 9780618634002
Publication Date: 2008-06-10
The Sweet Hell Inside by Edward Ball
Call Number: F279.C453 H37 2001
ISBN: 068816840X
Publication Date: 2001-11-01
Sword and Olive Branch by John A. Carpenter; Paul Cimbala (Introduction by)
Call Number: E467.1.H8 C3 1999
ISBN: 0823219879
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
A biography of Otis Oliver Howard, founder and first president of Howard University.
Two Biographies by African-American Women by Rollin Whiper; William L. Andrews (Introduction by)
Call Number: E185.96 .T88 1991
ISBN: 0195062043
Publication Date: 1991-04-18
The first biography is of William Wells Brown, an American Bondman, written by his daughter, Josephine Brown. The second is a biography of Martin R. Delany, the first African-American field officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War.

e-Books (Historical)

Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party and the Vote by Bernadette Cahill
Call Number: Ebooks
ISBN: 9780786469796
Publication Date: 2015-04-02
Frederick Douglass : America's prophet by D. H. Dilbeck
Call Number: Ebooks
ISBN: 9781469636184
Publication Date: 2018-02-14
Freedom Rider Diary by Carol Ruth Silver; Raymond Arsenault (Introduction by); Claude A. Liggins (Photographer); Cherie A. Gaines (Afterword by)
Call Number: E185.61 .S579 2014
ISBN: 1617038873
Publication Date: 2014-01-21
John Brown in Historical Memory by Michael Daigh
Call Number: E451 .D35 2015eb
ISBN: 9780786496174
Publication Date: 2015-04-27
Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade by John Williams Green; A. D. Kirwan (Editor); Kent Masterson Brown (Introduction by)
Call Number: Ebooks
ISBN: 081312221X
Publication Date: 2002-02-22
Josephus Daniels by Lee A. Craig
Call Number: Ebooks
ISBN: 9781469606958
Publication Date: 2013-05-01
The Life of Toussaint l'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti by John Relly Beard
Call Number: Ebooks
ISBN: 9781469607870
Publication Date: 2012-12-01
The Making of an Abolitionist by Denis Brennan
Call Number: E449.G25 B74 2014eb
ISBN: 9780786474257
Publication Date: 2014-06-27
Meyer London by Gordon J. Goldberg
Call Number: E748.L84 G65 2013eb
ISBN: 9780786472161
Publication Date: 2013-01-25
Militant Mediator : Whitney M. Young Jr. by Dennis C. Dickerson
Call Number: Ebooks
ISBN: 0813190819
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World by Steven Kemper
Call Number: Ebooks
ISBN: 9780226199078
Publication Date: 2015-01-13
Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy by Martin H. Quitt
Call Number: Ebooks
ISBN: 9781107024786
Publication Date: 2012-09-24