Wilbur Cortez Abbott (December 28, 1869[1] – February 3, 1947[2]) was an American historian and educator, born at Kokomo, Indiana.

During his time at Yale he gained wide scholastic attention with the publication of The Expansion of Europe in 1917.

[3] In 1920 he was offered a position at Harvard University, in substitution of Harold Laski.

[3] Abbott advised Robert G. Albion in his notable doctoral thesis Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, published in 1926.

[7] Essays in Modern English History in Honor of Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Harvard University Press, 1941