Coverage includes all aspects of American and Canadian history, from pre-history to date. Arts and Humanities Search. 1980 to present. Indexes articles on archaeology, architecture, arts, classics, dance, film, history, humanities, language and linguistics, music, philosophy, poetry, radio, religion, television, and theatre. This abstracting service indexes more than 3,100 American and foreign language periodicals.
Coverage includes all aspects of American and world history.
From 1955 through 1970, Historical Abstracts indexed only articles dealing with events occuring between 1775 and 1945. But in 1971, these dates were extended to include 1450 to date. From 1955 through 1963, Historical Abstracts indexed articles dealing with all the countries of the world. Since 1964, it excludes all articles dealing with American and Canadian history. Biographical sources include indexes, dictionaries, and guides in the areas of both history and traditional biography.