Heroes Research Project
Heroes Research Project
Individual biographies are located in the Biography section of the Media Center and are arranged alphabetically by the subject’s last name.
You can also use the Media Center Card Catalog to find circulating and reference books about hero you are researching.
• Go to the school’s web site: https://www.whrhs.org
• Select Academics
• Select Media Center
• Select Follett Destiny Card Catalog
• Click on Watchung Hills Regional High School District for card catalog access
• Enter the name of the hero in the Find box
• Search for topics using the following tabs:
• Search for topics using the following tabs:
• Keyword
• Subject ABC-CLIO Social Studies Databases
ABC-CLIO eBooks
Biography in Context
Classroom Video on Demand
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
Facts on File
• American History Online
• American Indian History Online
• American Women's History Online
• Modern World History Online
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Global Issues in Context
JSTOR
Pop Culture Universe
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Salem History
Science in Context
Student Resources in Context
World History in Context
Abbott, Edith (1876-1957)
Edith Abbott
Women's Intellectual Contributions: Edith Abbott
Abbott, Edith - Social Welfare History Project
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Jane Addams: Nobel Peace Prize, 1931
Addams, Jane [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
American Experience | Chicago | City of the Century | Jane Addams
Jane Addams: Biography
Jane Addams (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Jane Addams Collection
Twenty Years at Hull House
Louis Armstrong: Biography
Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns - Selected Artist Biography: Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong House Museum - Timeline
Louis Armstrong: A Masterful Trumpet Player
Louis Armstrong
Clara Barton: Civil War Nurse and Founder of the American Red Cross
Reynolds-Finley Historical Library – Clara BartonClara Barton | American Red Cross Founder
https://www.uab.edu/reynolds/cwfigs/barton
At the Front: Clara Barton and the Civil War
http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2013/08/at-the-front-clara-barton-and-the-civil-war.html
Clara Barton - Birthplace Museum
HistoryNet: Clara Barton
Ruby Bridges Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story
Ruby Bridges
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/ruby-bridges/
Ruby Bridges | The Story
http://www.rubybridges.com/story.html
Ruby Bridges: A Class of One | PBS NewsHour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june97/bridges_2-18.html
Ruby’s Story
http://rubybridgesfoundation.org/vision/rubys-story/
DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES
Princess Diana Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story
http://www.biography.com/people/princess-diana-9273782
Princess Diana - Biography
http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/diana-spencer.html
Princess Diana Biography | Biography Online
http://www.biographyonline.net/people/biography_princess_diana.html
Diana, Princess of Wales
http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/The%20House%20of%20Windsor%20from%201952/DianaPrincessofWales/Childhood.aspx
Princess Diana Biography
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/diana/p/princess_diana.htm
Walt Disney Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story
Walt Disney
http://www.justdisney.com/walt_disney/biography/long_bio.html
Walt Disney
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/165713/Walt-Disney
AMELIA EARHART
The Official Website of Amelia Earhart
http://www.ameliaearhart.com/about/bio.html
Amelia Earhart: Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/amelia-earhart-9283280
Timeline: Amelia Earhart
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/earhart
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/amelia-earhart
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Albert Einstein Official Site
http://einstein.biz
Albert Einstein: Biographical
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html
Albert Einstein Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story
http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408
Albert Einstein: Image and Impact
http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/
Einstein: The American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/einstein
MAHATMA GANDHI
Mahatma Gandhi
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/gandhi.html
Biography of Mahatma Gandhi
http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/gandhi.htm
Mohandas Gandhi
http://www.history.com/topics/mahatma-gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi Biography
http://www.history.co.uk/biographies/mahatma-gandhi
Bill Gates: Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520
Bill Gates Biography -- Academy of Achievement
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gat0bio-1
Bill Gates Biography http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Gates-Bill.html
LOU GEHRIG
Lou Gehrig Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story
http://www.biography.com/people/lou-gehrig-9308266
The Ballplayers - Lou Gehrig
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Lou_Gehrig_1903
Living Legacies: Lou Gehrig
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2001/Gehrig.html
Historic Baseball: Lou Gehrig
http://www.historicbaseball.com/players/g/gehrig_lou.html
Lou Gehrig Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SKyfGK9br
Lou Gehrig - Farewell to Baseball Address
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/lougehrigfarewelltobaseball.htm
MIEP GIES
Miep Gies: Her Own Story
http://www.miepgies.nl/en/
Miep Gies
Miep Gies
PBS - Scientific American Frontiers:Growing Up Different:My Experiences With Autism
Temple Grandin: Biography
Temple Grandin Biography
Temple Grandin's Official Autism Website
Autism First-Hand: An Expert Interview wth Temple Grandin, PhD
Stephen Hawking: The Official Website
Stephen Hawking Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story
Biography of Stephen Hawking
http://biography-of.com/stephen-hawking
Stephen Hawking: Brief Biography
http://www.hawking.org.uk/about-stephen.html
STEVE JOBS
Steve Jobs: Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805
All About Steve Jobs
http://allaboutstevejobs.com/bio/bio.ph
Steve Jobs
http://inventors.about.com/od/ijstartinventors/p/Steve-Jobs.htm
Steve Jobs: From Garage to World’s Most Valuable Company | Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/steve-jobs
Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates http://spectator.org/articles/36514/steve-jobs-vs-bill-gates
Steve Jobs Biography http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Jobs-Steve.html
JOHN F. KENNEDY
John F. Kennedy: Biography
American President: John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Life in Brief
John F. Kennedy Biography - Facts, Quotes, Photos, Video, TimelineJohn F. Kennedy
http://www.biography.com/people/john-f-kennedy-9362930
Life of John F. Kennedy - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/Life-of-John-F-Kennedy.aspx
JFK: The Kennedys
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/kennedys-bio-john-fitzgerald/
The History Place - John F. Kennedy Photo History
http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus
Life of Emma Lazarus Provides Inspiration for Princeton’s Schor
Nelson Mandela Biography - Birthday, Facts, Life Story, Quotes, Timeline
Nelson Mandela
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1993/mandela-bio.html
Nelson Mandela
http://www.history.com/topics/nelson-mandela
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator as Prisoner and President, Dies at 95
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela | FRONTLINE | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/
BBC News - Nelson Mandela’s Life and Times
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12305154
Biography: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/mandelanelson/a/bio_mandela.htm
Thurgood Marshall Biography
The Supreme Court Biographies of the Robes: Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall: Biography
Thurgood Marshall
Milk Foundation: The Official Harvey Milk Biography
Harvey Milk: Biography
Harvey Milk Biography
GLBTQ Social Sciences: Harvey Milk
Jackie Robinson: Biography
Jackie Robinson - Black History - HISTORY.com
Jackie Robinson
Robinson, Jackie | Baseball Hall of Fame
Context: US History – Jackie Robinson Civil Rights Leader?
Jim Crow, Meet Lieutenant Robinson: A 1944 Court-Martial
Eleanor Roosevelt Biography: National First Ladies' Library
Biography of Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt - WGBH American Experience
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/bio_er.html
American National Biography Online: Roosevelt, Eleanor
Eleanor Roosevelt: National Women's History Museum
http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/eleanor-roosevelt
Anna RooseveltBiography of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
http://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/essays/firstlady
Franklin D. Roosevelt Biography
Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt : Biography
American President: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1578.html
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/roosevelt-franklin.cfm
Pat Tillman: Biography
What Really Happened to Pat Tillman?
Pat Tillman - Enduring Guilt
ESPN Classic - Hero
Harriet Tubman: Biography
Harriet Tubman Biography: From Slavery to Freedom
Harriet Tubman
A Biography of Harriet Tubman
Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915
Washington, Booker T.
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington: Biography
Dr. Booker Taliferro Washington
An Autobiography: The Story of My Life
American Indian Biography: Sarah Winnemucca
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Voices From the Gaps
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/hopkinsSarah.php
Sarah Winnemucca: Native American Activist
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/nativeamwomen/p/Sarah-Winnemucca.htm
Documenting a Pakistani Girl’s Transformation
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
Malala Yousafzai Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story
http://www.biography.com/people/malala-yousafzai-21362253
Malala Yousafzai: The Bravest Girl in the World
http://www.parade.com/170557/parade/malala-yousafzai-the-bravest-girl-in-the-world/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/world/asia/the-making-of-Malala.html?ref=malalayousafzai
Malala Yousafzai Biography & Life Story
http://www.malalayousafzai.org.uk/malala-yousafzai-biography/