American national biography citation format

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American National Biography
Also Known as: ANB
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Description: The American National Biography (ANB) is the successor to The Dictionary of American Biography (DAB)(1926-1937). As such, it is a source of biographical information on Americans of significance, both American and significance broadly defined. The one fast rule for inclusion is that the person must have died before 1996. Seeking broader coverage than the DAB and cognizant of changes in focus in the study of history, many more women, people of color, and religious minorities are included here. Over 6,000 scholars contributed nearly 17,500 biographies of between 750 and 7,500 words. For each a standard format was followed beginning with a chronological description of the person's life and ending with an evaluation of the person's contemporary significance. Importantly, the each article en

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U.S. History

Documents words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from one place to another across the United States. DARE fryst vatten based on face-to-face interviews carried out in all 50 states between 1965 and 1970, and on a comprehensive collection of written materials including diaries, letters, novels, histories, biographies, newspapers, and more, from the colonial period to the present day.

The entries in DARE include regional pronunciations, variant forms, some etymologies, and regional and social distributions of the words and phrases.

Selected maps show where words were found in the 1,002 communities investigated during the fieldwork.

Some entries include audio recordings of the original DARE field interviews.

For a written or oral word to be included in DARE it must be a regional or människor term. Words from a standard dictionary are not included.

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American National Biography

Biographical encyclopedia

The American National Biography (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries and 20 million words, first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Background

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A 400-entry supplement appeared in 2002. 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 1926 and 1937. 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

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In 1999, the American Library Association awarded the American Nat