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MAS Complete
Collection of magazines, books, and multimedia covering a wide-range of subject areas. For high school students.
Academic Search Premiere
Multidisciplinary full-text database of academic journals for scholarly research. For college-level and adult researchers.
MasterFile Complete
Popular full-text magazines, reference books and other sources from the world's leading publishers.
Newspapers.com Library Edition
Historical newspapers archive from the 1700s - 2000s containing thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers in the United States and other countries
Explora for Everyone
Search interface for EBSCO's general information resources for the general public.
Biography Resources
Biography Resources
Explora for Everyone
Search interface for EBSCO's general information resources for the general public. Try using the word "biography" in your search phrase to bring up a biography as the first search result
Biography (A&E)
AlWebsite of the Arts & Entertainment Network's Biography Channel.
Encyclopedia of World Biographies
A collection of biographies of current important people.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia for high school students and adults.
WLHS Library Print Resources
Catalog of Print Materials available at the WLHS Library.
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