• ABC-CLIO

    ABC-CLIO databases connect students, scholars, teachers, and librarians with curated collections of primary sources, expert perspectives, and reference material on essential subjects in U.S. history and government, world history, geography, and a range of multicultural and popular culture disciplines.

    • Updated daily with credible, vetted content
    • Enhanced with self assessment and differentiated learning tools like videos, translation, and text-to-speech
    • Developed for middle, high school, and college students to think more critically on complex topics

    Training Videos

    • Topic Center Navigation - helps students navigate the wide range or resources available
    • CLIOview - this tool allows students to create graphs to compare data on up to 70 different categories at a country and state level
    • Research Lists - this tool allows teachers to create resource lists for students, lists can be shared in Google classroom

American Government

  • ABC CLIO American Government icon

    American Government explains the structure and foundations of U.S. government and connects these concepts to current issues and questions about political processes, constitutional rights, and international relations. 

    Highlights

    • More than 13,000 primary and secondary sources, including 2,500 documents, 4,000 images, 250 maps, and 250 audio and video recordings
    • Biographies, including portraits of important historical and present government figures
    • Updated roster of such key members of government as the President, cabinet members, Congress members, and state governors
    • CLIOview tool allows students to make comparisons and graph statistical data at the state level, with 20+ demographic categories including electoral results, federal spending, and more

Latin American History

  • ABC CLIO Latino American Experience

    The Latino American Experience: The American Mosaic covers the history and culture from all the countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula, including content on modern-day Latin American countries, the history of the Hispanic Diaspora, and indigenous peoples

    • 5,000+ primary and secondary documents and media, including speeches, maps, songs, audio clips, interviews, and vivid historical photographs
    • 700+ biographies of famous political and social figures
    • CLIOview tool allows students to make comparisons and graph statistical data in 25 categories unique to the Latin American community
    • More than 75 thesis-driven, scholarly essays from scholars such as Gabriel Gutierrez address complex questions 

World Geography

  •   ABC CLIO World Geography

    World Geography develops students' global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, environmental, and cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world. Students can find information about the landforms and climate; natural resources and agriculture; environment; people; traditions and etiquette; food and holidays; national dress; art and landmarks; and government, politics, and economy; as well as its history and contemporary issues the country faces.

    • Highlights
      • Profiles of nearly 200 countries, providing a portrait of each nation's geographical features, recent and early history, culture, politics, and economy, plus more than 600 political and topographical maps to situate readers
      • 8,500+ primary and secondary sources that include images of palaces, capitals, and ruins; flags; noteworthy speeches; recipes; facts and figures; glossary terms; and national constitutions
      • 1,700+ biographies of important political and cultural figures
      • CLIOview tool allows students to make comparisons and graph statistical data at the country level, with more than 160 categories including birth rate, currency, social media users, and more 

American History

  • ABC CLIO American History

    American History covers the colonial era and American Revolution through to the nation's rise to eminence as a global superpower, analyzing American political conflict, economic development, and changing culture and thought.

    Highlights

    • 16,000+ primary and secondary sources, including government and court documents, photos, maps, audio and video recordings
    • 3,300 biographies of famous political and military figures, as well as fascinating people from across American society
    • Poses historical dilemmas such as "How successful was the New Deal in pulling America out of the Great Depression?" that invite learners to imagine themselves in the position of historic figures and in this way develop empathy and the ability to think laterally

African American History

  • ABC CLIO African American Experience icon

    The African American Experience - The American Mosaic provides a comprehensive survey of African American history and its major political, social, artistic, and literary movements, notable events and legislative reform. Featuring articles and essays from African American authors and contributors.

    Highlights 

    • Nearly 8,000 primary and secondary sources, including overview essays, slave narratives, speeches, court cases, and quotations
    • 1,000 biographies of famous political and social figures, as well as contemporary figures
    • CLIOview tool allows students to make comparisons between African American demographics and to graph statistical data in categories such as voter registration, household income, and more
    • Makes connections to literary classics including Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

World History Medieval Era

  • ABC CLIO World History Ancient Era icon

    World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras explores ancient civilizations, dynasties, and empires and profiles city-states, countries, and regions of the ancient and medieval world, encompassing intellectual developments, wars and cooperation, religion, cultural practices, and more from prehistory through to the beginning of the Renaissance. 

    Highlights

    • 11,000+ primary and secondary sources, including selections from the Code of Hammurabi, the Edict of Milan, and Marcus Aurelius's The Meditations
    • 1,800+ biographies of important figures such as Alexander the Great, Confucius, William the Conqueror, and Eleanor of Aquitaine
    • Encourages adoption of a global perspective by providing a breadth of information ranging far beyond Western civilization to ancient Asia, the Islamic world, Africa, the Americas, and Central and East Asia

World History the Modern Era

  • ABC CLIO World History Modern Era

    World History: The Modern Era focuses on the history of the world from 1500  to the present. Students will learn about the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; revolutions in France and Latin America; imperialism; nationalism; World Wars I and II; growing global powers, and more.

    Highlights

    • More than 70 era explorations complemented by a number of interactive study and teaching tools
    • 7,300+ primary sources, including speeches; newsreel footage; photographs; book excerpts and recorded interviews with notable figures; and maps depicting kingdoms, island regions, religious affiliations, and more

World Religions

  • ABC CLIO World Religions

    World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy spans 50+ religions practiced throughout the world, both those that have flourished and those that have disappeared. Important figures, core beliefs, customs and practices, celebrations and holidays, momentous events, significant and sacred places accompany descriptions of the essence of each religion.

    Highlights

    • Primary and secondary sources including 1,700 photos and illustrations, 300 maps, and 175 audio and video recordings
    • Presents scholarly perspectives on core concepts of religion that have significant implications today
    • CLIOview tool allows students to compare statistics such as number of adherents, growth percentage, and population across countries and time