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Our Company

ABC-CLIO is a closely held publisher of educational and reference products. The company focuses on history and social studies resources for the scholar, student, teacher, and librarian in universities and secondary schools.

The company was founded in 1953 by Eric Boehm and produced its first publication in May, 1955. ABC-CLIO is a second-generation family company headed today by Ron Boehm. ABC-CLIO's headquarters office is in Santa Barbara, California, with branch offices in Denver, Colorado and Oxford, England.

Our reference books have won numerous awards from Library Journal, Choice, and Booklist. The latest offering from ABC-CLIO Schools is a suite of eight resource-rich Subscription Databases that function both as reference and curriculum resources.

As a company, ABC-CLIO takes pride in constantly re-inventing itself. This re-invention requires experimentation at a time when there are many unresolved issues and great uncertainties. Today's new technologies, new paradigms, and new business models provide great opportunity for innovation that can positively impact history scholarship and education.

Please see the Academic, Schools, Public Library, and International sections of our site for more information about the products and services targeted to these customers.

Ron Boehm
President & CEO