Biography

Content features painters, sculptors, and illustrators ranging from early artists to modern urban expressionists. Find digital images, biographical documentation, book references, auction data, and more on over 270,000 artists including the museums that own artwork, artwork prices and valuations.

Biography In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people.

Information on countries & territories including customs, lifestyles, & social conditions. Find recipes from all countries as well as biographies of famous citizens. Photographs are available for some countries.

Designed with students and educators in mind, Explora provides a safe, trustworthy environment for students to look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects, and homework.

Search across multiple resources for high school student research. Sources include magazine and newspaper articles, eBooks, encyclopedia entries, and images.

MAS Complete is a full-text database for school-related research and reading. It contains full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, an image collection containing photos, maps, flags, and color PDFs and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1921) for key magazines.

Have a paper due about a serious topic? Want to now every fact there is about someone famous? Use MasterFILE Complete to dig up hard to find facts. Covering virtually every subject of general interest, it also includes more than 350 full-text reference books, 82,000 biographies, 90,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of over 100,000 photos, maps, and flags.

World Book Advanced, built for advanced students and adults, contains thousands of articles, primary sources, and online books. Contains up-to-the-minute access to worldwide news publications, government links from numerous countries, and multimedia reference materials.

Tailored for students in elementary and middle schools, World Book Student includes all the articles from the print versions of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, and research tools.