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About the Database

Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present
(excluding the United States and Canada)


Denver G. Compton, Managing Editor

Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the world's leading bibliographic database for historical study. Historical Abstracts currently covers over 1,700 journals [ Journal List ] published worldwide in over forty languages. The database comprises over 720,000 entries from periodicals, with full-text links to over 135,000 articles and dissertations and masters' theses.
Each year, the editors of Historical Abstracts add over 16,000 abstracts and citations, over 3,000 book citations, and over 1,200 citations of dissertations and masters' theses to the database from the current literature and publications. Additional bibliographical entries are also added to the database by editorial projects such as retrospective coverage of journal issues published prior to 1954.
Historical Abstracts is committed to covering every significant historical journal published anywhere in the world, as well as journals with historical content published in closely related social science fields. Most articles are abstracted by an experienced group of abstracters, many of who are historians and librarians and are experts in the content of the journals they cover and who possess the necessary language skills. Other abstracts are provided by the journals. In every case, abstracts are carefully edited for clarity and precision.
Historical Abstracts on the Web includes incomplete, in-process entries awaiting abstracts and, in some cases, title translations.

Historical Abstracts Advisory Board members
America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts staff
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Historical Abstracts Advisory Board
Roger Adelson (Arizona State University)

Edward A. Alpers (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ivo Banac (Yale University)

Joel Colton (Duke University)

François Crouzet (University of Paris-Sorbonne)

Margaret Stieg Dalton (University of Alabama)

Gerald H. Davis (Georgia State University)

Joseph W. Esherick (University of California, San Diego)

Fritz Fellner (University of Salzburg)

Tibor Frank (Eötvös Loránd University)

Carol Gluck (Columbia University)

John A. S. Grenville (University of Birmingham)

Georg Iggers (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Philip S. Khoury (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Dominick LaCapra (Cornell University)

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (College de France)

Walter Laqueur (Center for Strategic & International Studies)

Bernard Lewis (Princeton University)

Woodford McClellan (University of Virginia)

Norman M. Naimark (Stanford University)

Stanley G. Payne (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Takashi Shiraishi (University of Kyoto, Japan)

Tzvetan Todorov (National Center of Scientific Research)

Louis W. Truschel (Western Washington University)

Eric Van Young (University of California, San Diego)

Immanuel Wallerstein (Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University)

America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts staff

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The Serials Staff
Deborah A. Looker, Senior Manager, Serials

Denver G. Compton, Managing Editor, Historical Abstracts
Alice B. Chaffee, Editor
Tyler D. Charlton, Editor
Roger W. Davis, Senior Editor
T. H. Elkiss, Senior Editor
Sarah Forzetting, Editor
Monica Orozco, Abstracter
Wesley Palmer, Editor
Ron Twisdale, Editor
Shannon Venable, Editor
Nancy R. Vergara, Electronic Editor

Mary Bagne, Managing Editor, America: History & Life
Juneal Chenoweth, Editor
Virginia Collins, Editor
Heidi Allene Henrickson, Editor/Abstracter
Michael Hinckley, Abstracter
Janet M. McFall, Editor
Bill Pellerin, Senior Editor
Amy Reynolds, Editor
Angela Sturgeon, Senior Editor

Karen Steward, Library and Production Manager
Robert Cornejo, Production Staff
Holly Green, Freelance Abstracter Coordinator
David Hackleman, Library Services Coordinator — Receiving
Ashely Hyder, Production Staff
Marlene Maxwell, Volunteer Abstracter Coordinator
Martha Peyton, Acquisitions Coordinator
Cleo Wender, Electronic Resources Coordinator

Serials Systems Staff
David R. Craig, Database Developer
Skip Denton, Information Processor
Glen Kaltenbrun, Senior Web/Database Developer
Tracy A. Kaltenbrun, Senior Database Developer
Eric Laschinger, Database Developer
Donald L. Rabor, Senior Programmer/Analyst
Andy S. Reagan, Web Product Developer

Historical Abstracts Advisory Board members

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