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American National Biography
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The American National Biography (ANB) is a volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17, entries and 20 million words, first published in by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Background
A entry supplement appeared in Additional funding came from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The ANB bills itself as the successor of the Dictionary of American Biography, which was first published between and It is not, however, a strict superset of this older publication; the selection of topics was made anew.
It is commonly available in the reference sections of United States libraries, and is available online by subscription (see external links).
Awards and reception
In , the American Library Association awarded the American National Biography its Dartmouth Medal as a reference work of outstanding quality and significance. The American Historical Association's Waldo G. Leland Prize was awarded for
It has been criticized for missing cross references and occasional errors, and for its cost, which is said to limit availability in poor countries.
Selected access
- General editors: John Arthur Garraty, PhD (–) & Mark Christopher Carnes, PhD (born )
Volumes via Internet Archive (full access, free, with registration)
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1ANB ("Aarons, Alexander A." – "Baird, Spencer Fullerton").
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→ Vol. 2ANB ("Baker, Belle" – "Blatch, Harriet Stanton"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 3ANB ("Blatchford, Richard Milford" – "Burnet, William").
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→ Vol. 4ANB ("Burnett, Alfred" – "Clarke, Lewis G."). Retrieved 28 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 5ANB ("Clarke, Mary Bayard Devereux" – "DaCosta, John Chambers").
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→ Vol. 7ANB ("Dubuque, Julien" – "Fishbein, Morris"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 8ANB ("Fishberg, Maurice" – "Gihon, Albert Leary").
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→ Vol. 9ANB ("Gilbert, Anne Hartley" – "Hand, Learned"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 10ANB ("Handerson, Henry Ebenezer" – "Hofmann, Josef Casimir").
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→ Vol. 11ANB ("Hofstadter, Richard" – "Jepson, Willis Linn"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 12ANB ("Jeremiah, Thomas" – "Kurtz, Benjamin").
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→ Vol. 13ANB ("Kurtzman, Harvey" – "Lovecraft, H.P."). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 14ANB ("Lovejoy, Arthur O." – "McCurdy, Richard Aldrich").
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→ Vol. 15ANB ("McCutcheon, Floretta Doty" – "Moskowitz, Belle Lindner Israels"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 17ANB ("Park, Edwards Amasa" – "Pushmataha").
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→ Vol. 19ANB ("Rousseau, Lovell Harrison" – "Simmons, William Joseph"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 20ANB ("Simms, Florence" – "Stratemeyer, George Edward").
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→ Vol. 21ANB ("Stratton, Eugene" – "Tunney, Gene"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 23ANB ("Wellek, René" – "Wrenn, Robert Duffield"). Retrieved 20 May ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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6ANB ("Dafora, Asadata" – "Dubuclet, Antoine"). Retrieved 4 June &#; via Google Books (snippet view).ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 16ANB ("Mosler, Henry" – "Parish, Peggy"). Retrieved 4 June &#; via Google Books (snippet view).ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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18ANB ("Putnam, Alice Harvey Whiting" – "Roush, Edd J."). Retrieved 4 June &#; via Google Books (snippet view).ISBN&#;; OCLC&#; (all editions).
→ Vol. 22ANB ("Tunnicliff, Ruth May" – "Welk, Lawrence"). Retrieved 4 June &#; via Google Books (snippet view).ISBN&#;X; OCLC&#; (all editions).
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24ANB ("Wright, Austin Tappan" – "Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma").
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