Comprehensive biographies on the world's most influential people with related content from periodicals and multimedia to provide context.

Formerly named Biography in Context.

Biographical and critical essays on the lives, works and careers of the world’s most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Abstracts for documents covering the exploration and settlement of the Americas.

Comprehensive historical resource drawing from reference books, encyclopedias, journals and more.

Explore more than 40,000 historical photographs and maps documenting the people, places and organizations of Johnson County, Kansas, from the 19th century to the present.

Primary source documents from Kansas history from 1854 - 1865.

Explore digitized primary sources covering a wide range of topics from the Kansas Historical Society.

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