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Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
Something of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
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- page images at HathiTrust
- Gutenberg text
The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
The Life of Jacob Persinger, Who Was Taken by the Shawnee Indians When An Infant; With a Short Account of the Indian Troubles in Missouri, and a Sketch of the Adventures of the Author (reprint; originally published 1861), by Joseph Persinger (page images at HathiTrust)
A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: United States -- Biography -- Bibliography

Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography (c2003), by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Rebecca Stuhr (PDF with commentary here at Penn)
Autobiographies by Americans of Color, 1980-1994: An Annotated Bibliography (Troy, NY: Whitston Pub. Co., 1997), by Rebecca Stuhr (PDF with commentary here at Penn)
Index to Profile Sketches in New Yorker Magazine (Boston: F. W. Faxon Co., 1946), by Thomas Shuler Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (partial serial archives)

Filed under: United States -- Biography -- Indexes

The American Genealogical-Biographical Index to American Genealogical, Biographical, and Local History Materials, contrib. by Fremont Rider (partial serial archives)

Filed under: United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature

Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, by Edward Eggleston (Gutenberg text)
Hero Tales From American History, by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: United States -- Biography -- Portraits

Pictures of People: Alice Neel's American Portrait Gallery (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c1998), by Pamela Allara (PDF at Brandeis)

Filed under: Alabama -- Biography

Leaders of the Colored Race in Alabama (Mobile, AL: News Publishing Co., c1928), by O. O. Sarver, ed. by Joseph H. Moorman and E. L. Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Alabama and Her People (3 volumes; Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1927), by Albert Burton Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Arizona -- Biography

Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman, by Martha Summerhayes (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Arkansas -- Biography

Historical Arkansas (ca. 1919), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Memorial Chapter No. 48 (Little Rock, Ark.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas (c1908), by Josiah Hazen Shinn

Filed under: California -- Biography

California and Californians (4 volumes; Chicago et al.: Lewis Pub. Co., 1932), ed. by Rockwell D. Hunt, contrib. by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (page images at HathiTrust)
Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study (San Francisco: History Co., 1891-1892), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
Prentice Mulford's Story: Life by Land and Sea (New York: F. J. Needham, 1889), by Prentice Mulford
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Ginny Good (electronic edition; text and audio by the author), by Gerard Jones (HTML with commentary at everyonewhosanyone.com)
A Picture of Pioneer Times in California, by William Francis White (HTML at LOC)

Filed under: Delaware -- Biography

History of the State of Delaware (3 volumes; Wilmington, DE: The author, 1908), by Henry C. Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Florida -- Biography

History of Florida, Past and Present, Historical and Biographical (3 volumes; Chicago and New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1923), by H. G. Cutler (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Georgia -- Biography

Georgians in Profile: Historical Essays in Honor of Ellis Merton Coulter (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1958), ed. by Horace Montgomery (PDF at Georgia)
Convention Sketches: Brief Biographies of the Members of the Constitutional Convention, July 11, 1877 (Atlanta: Constitution Pub. Co., 1877) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Miscellanies of Georgia: Historical, Biographical, Descriptive, Etc., by Absalom H. Chappell (page images at MOA)
Historical Collections of Georgia: Containing the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. Relating to its History and Antiquities, From its First Settlement to the Present Time (New York: Pudney and Russell, 1854), ed. by George White
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage Over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, by Dolly Sumner Lunt (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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