Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts, published by ABC-CLIO in Santa Barbara, covers the world scholarly literature in history, except for the United States and Canada. These two countries are covered by the companion work American, History and Life. The index includes bibliographical citations to books, journal articles, and dissertations published in 90 countries. Abstracts are included for the journal articles; abstracts for dissertations can be found in Dissertation Abstracts Ondisc.

All branches of world history are included: political, diplomatic, military,, economic, social, cultural, religious, and intellectual history. The beginning point is 1450 for this database.

In addition, Historical Abstracts treats material on bibliography and methodology of history, historiography, philosophy of history, historians, archival collections, and the teaching of history.

Historical Abstracts on CD-ROM is available in the Reference Center at USC. A print version is also available.

See also America: History & Life.for research articles and books on United States and Canadian history.