[2] The company consults academic leaders in the fields they cover in order to provide authority for their reference titles.

ABC-Clio was founded in 1955 as a privately held corporation by Eric Boehm with its first publication, Historical Abstracts.

In 2001, ABC-Clio began to publish eBooks, initially providing 150 different titles to schools and libraries.

[4] In 1996, ABC-Clio merged with an electronic publishing company, Intellimation, which also produced educational software.

The deal gave ABC-Clio a "perpetual license" to use the imprints of Greenwood Press and publish all of its titles.

[2] ABC-Clio Solutions provides digital curriculum with multimedia content, text-to-speech features, translation tools which covers various topics relating to history and the humanities.

[12] In 1966 Praeger sold his firm to William B. Benton, an American senator and publisher and the chairman of Encyclopaedia Britannica.