How-to

Biographies

The Biographies feature provides a simple search and browse interface for young users to locate biography articles. The feature includes several thousand biographies on historical figures, popular culture figures, and other people of interest.

Search

There are two ways to use Biographies. A user can either conduct a search or browse.

To direct a search, follow the steps below.

Select Biographies from the feature container.
Enter a name or keyword into the search box to search the full text of all biography articles. For example, the search results for Alexander Graham Bell will be retrieved if a search for "Bell" or "telephone" is entered.
Press enter or click Go! to conduct the search and land on the search results page.
Click on a name to open the article.

Browse

If you're not sure who you want to look up, you can browse by job or achievement.

Select Biographies from the feature container.
Scroll to Browse by job or achievement. Click See more to reveal more biographies for the category.
Once you select a browse category, you can further filter biographies using three other options: gender, country or cultural heritage, and time period.
To remove a filter category, X out of it at the top.

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