American National Biography by Oxford University Press offers biographies of more than 17,400 people whose lives have shaped the nation. Originally published in 24 volumes in 1999, the online version is updated with hundreds of new entries and revisions each year to enhance accuracy and currency.
Occupations represented include:
- Agriculturists
- Apiarists
- Biologists
- Botanists
- Ecologists
- Entomologists
- Farmers
- Foresters
- Horticulturists
- Insect Pathologists
- Landscape architects
- Mycologists
- Naturalists
- Plant collectors
- Plant geneticists
- Plant pathologists
- Plant physiologists
- Science educators
- Scientific illustrators
- Scientific organization administrators
- Secretaries of Agriculture
- Seedsmen
- Soil scientists
The ANB Online also includes 900 articles from The Oxford Companion to United States History, including:
- Agricultural Education and Extension
- Agricultural Experiment Stations
- Agriculture
- Bioethics
- Biological Sciences
- Biotechnology Industry
- Dust Bowl
- Environmentalism
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Evolution, Theory of
- Farmers' Alliance Movement
- Food and Diet
- Landscape Design
- Parks, Urban
- Science
- Subsidies, Agricultural
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