Twenty-eight New Articles and Special Resource Tools Reminder

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With this update, twenty-eight new articles are added to the American National Biography Online, and, as usual, a broad spectrum of activities and achievements is represented. The world of music makes an especially strong showing, with entries on performers ranging from Ray Charles, the genius of soul, to Cathy Berberian, grande dame of the avant-garde. There is also a jazz contingent featuring the incomparable Lionel Hampton and the adventurous Don Cherry. Katharine Hepburn and Rodney Dangerfield represent the domains of stage and screen, where she arrived from the top of the social scale, and he from near the bottom. From the spheres of business and technology there is A. B. Dick, who sold mimeograph machines to America's businesses before they even had typewriters. Several articles deal with distinguished academics, including Sallie W. Stockard, first woman to graduate from the University of North Carolina, and Nathan M. Pusey, first university president to raise $100 million for his alma mater. The writer Franz Werfel is on hand, author of The Song of Bernadette, as are the cartoonists Al Hirschfeld and Bill Mauldin - one made his drawings in Broadway theaters, the other in theaters of war. For the full list of new entries, go to http://www.anb.org/update.html.

SPECIAL RESOURCE TOOLS
A reminder about two exciting resources available to ANB Online users.

Research Ideas
Students can now jump-start their research with editorially selected lists of articles in 12 topics, including the Civil War, Women's History, American Literature, the Depression and the New Deal, and more. A quick and easy way into the database, users can branch out into the deep content of the ANB Online by clicking on the hyperlinked cross-references within the essays. The research area is available from the home page and from http://www.anb.org/articles/themes/themes.html.

A Teacher's Guide to Using ANB Online
Developed with the participation of librarians and teachers, the Guide offers six lessons that assist teachers in actively incorporating ANB Online into classroom work. The lessons help teachers fully utilize the resources available in ANB Online and highlight the various features of the site--the cross-references, the illustrations, the additional resources. Also available from the home page, you can view this Guide directly at http://www.anb.org/teachguide.html.

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