General Info

If it s one for the history books, it s one for ABC-CLIO, a publisher of educational and reference products. The company specializes in history and social studies resources for scholars, students, teachers and librarians at universities and secondary schools. Its flagship products are America: History and Life and Life and Historical Abstracts, which are both bibliographic research databases used by historians. The company also offers a suite of six subscription Web sites that provide reference and curriculum resources. ABC-CLIO was founded by Eric Boehm in 1953. It has headquarters in Santa Barbara, Calif., and operates branch offices in Denver and Oxford, England.