This crowd‑sourced portal catalogs concise biographies of notable individuals—scientists, activists, artists, and more—providing essential life dates, career highlights, and thematic subpages (e.g., doctors, humanitarians) alongside a companion blog of essays on historical milestones(cross-category)

A & E Networks’ flagship site, Biography.com offers thousands of detailed profiles, video documentaries, and curated lists of historical and contemporary figures—from heads of state to cultural icons—making it a go‑to online reference for life stories and memoir excerpts.(cross-category)

Founded in 1993, Creative Nonfiction is the world’s first literary magazine devoted exclusively to narrative nonfiction—featuring in‑depth memoir chapters, biographical essays, and reportage that explore real lives with the craft and pacing of fiction(cross-category)

Self described as " award-winning, and award-losing project dedicated to sharing fascinating-yet-obscure true storie", from the fields of science, history, and psychology, available in both written articles and podcast format.(cross-category)

Europe’s digital platform bringing together cultural heritage objects—books, artworks, audiovisual materials—from institutions across the continent, all freely searchable and viewable.(cross-category)

The definitive reference for music research, featuring thousands of signed articles on composers, performers, genres, and music theory, alongside critical discographies.(cross-category)

An international interdisciplinary forum hosting over 200 scholarly email discussion networks, book reviews, and resource guides across all humanities fields.(cross-category)

A partnership of academic and research institutions offering a collaborative repository of millions of digitized titles—books, journals, government documents—for full-text searching and preservation.(cross-category)

The online gateway to Grove Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, providing biographies, thematic essays, and image links for art-historical scholarship.(cross-category)

Provides a digital collection of scholarly journals and books from university presses and other academic publishers.(cross-category)

An online journal and not-for-profit project exploring curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas.(cross-category)