•In many ways the modern American National Biography gives American women the historical credit they deserve.
•It not only includes more women, but offers biographies that explore their full accomplishments and contributions.
•It uses modern scholarship to include the most important details on the figures that it portrays.
•The extensive bibliographies, that follow each entry,
list most primary sources available, as
well as their locations. They also include accessible and current secondary source treatment of each figure.