This is a list of encyclopedias and encyclopedic/biographical dictionaries published on the subject of history and historians in any language. Entries are in the English language except where noted.

General history American Association for State and Local History. Directory of historical organizations in the United States and Canada. AASLH Press, 1990–. . Bagnall, Roger S.; Brodersen, Kai; Champion, Craige B.; Erskine, Andrew, Huebner, Sabine R. (2012): The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley, 13 vols, 7,800 pages. . Subscription-based online access available.Guide to Reference: General History Behnen, Michael, ed. (2002): Lexikon der deutschen Geschichte 1945–1990. Ereignisse – Institutionen – Personen im geteilten Deutschland. Kröner, Stuttgart 2002, . Burnett, Thom. Conspiracy Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedia of Conspiracy Theories Carruth, Gordon. Encyclopedia of World Facts and Dates. HarperCollins, 1993. DeFronzo, James V. Revolutionary movements in world history: From 1750 to the present. ABC-CLIO, 2006. . dtv (2002): Lexikon des Mittelalters, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 9 vols, paperback, 9,900 pages. . Online edition (2009) available from Brepolis, . Evans, Barbara Jean. A to zax: a comprehensive dictionary for genealogists & historians. Hearthside Press, 1995. . Feather, John. Dictionary of Book History. Oxford University Press, 1987.Kister, 1994, p. 388. Fondation DHS, ed. (2011) Dictionnaire Historique de la Suisse (Historical Dictionary of Switzerland), Editions Gilles Attinger, Hauterive, . Also published in German as Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Schwabe AG, Basel, and Italian as Dizionario storico della Svizzera, Armando Dadò editore, Locarno, . . The work currently consists of 10 volumes (A-Sa) in each language and is expected to be completed in 2014 with the 13th volume. Free searchable online access is available. Geiss, Dieter, contrib. (2008): Der Grosse Ploetz, 35th edition, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2,128 pages. . Haydn, Joseph, Benjamin Vincent. Haydn's dictionary of dates and universal information relating to all ages and nations. Scholarly Press, 1968. International Committee of Historical Sciences. International bibliography of historical sciences: Internationale Bibliographie der Geschichtswissenschaften. Librairie Armand Colin. . Johnson, David E. From day to day: A calendar of notable birthdays and events. Scarecrow Press, 2001. .

Kohn, George Childs, Leonard Latkovski, Jr. Dictionary of historic documents. Facts on File, 2003. . Kuhlman, Erika A. A to Z of women in world history. Facts on File, 2002. . Langer, William L. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 5th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1972. Lenman, Bruce, Hilary Marsden. Chambers dictionary of world history. Chambers, 2005. . MacCusker, John J. History of world trade since 1450. Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. . Peregrine, Peter N., Melvin Ember, Human Relations Area Files, Inc. Encyclopedia of prehistory. Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001–2002. .Guide to Reference: Anthropology and Ethnology Ritter, Harry. Dictionary of concepts in history. Greenwood Press, 1986. . Shillington, Kevin (2004). Encyclopedia of African History. Routledge. 3 vols. 1,912 pages. . Stearns, Peter N. (2001): The Encyclopedia of World History, 6th edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1,243 pages. With searchable CD. . Strayer, Joseph, ed. (1989). Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Charles Scribner's Sons. . Jordan, William Chester, ed. (2003). Dictionary of the Middle Ages: Supplement 1. Charles Scribner's Sons. Taddey, Gerhard, ed. (1998): Lexikon der deutschen Geschichte. Ereignisse, Institutionen, Personen. Von den Anfängen bis zur Kapitulation 1945., 3rd edition, Kröner, Stuttgart, 1,410 pages. . Wetterau, Bruce. Macmillan Concise Dictionary of World History. Macmillan, 1983. Williams, Henry Smith (1905), The Historians' History of the World, New York, The Outlook Company.

Chronologies Asimov's Chronology of the World. HarperCollins, 1991. Grun, Bernard. Timetables of History. 3rd ed, Simon & Schuster, 1991. Murray, Tim. Milestones in archaeology: A chronological encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2007. . New York Public Library Book of Chronologies. Prentice Hall, 1990. Trager, James. The People's Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present. Rev. ed., Holt, 1992.Kister, 1994, p. 381.

Exploration and discovery Bohlander, Richard. World Explorers and Discoverers. Macmillan, 1992. Delpar, Helen. The Discoverers: An Encyclopedia of Explorers and Exploration. McGraw-Hill, 1980. Holland, Clive. Arctic exploration and development, c. 500 B.C. to 1915: An encyclopedia. Garland Publ., 1994. .Guide to Reference: History of the Polar Regions The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of Discovery and Exploration. Marshall Cavendish, 1991.

Historians Boyd, Kelly. Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999. . Cannon, John Ashton. The Blackwell dictionary of historians. Blackwell Reference, 1988. . Jenkins, Ellen J. Eighteenth-Century British Historians. Thomson Gale, 2007. . Wilson, Clyde Norman. American historians, 1607–1865. Gale Research, 1984. .

Historiography Boia, Lucian, Ellen Nore, Keith Hitchins International Committee of Historical Sciences. Great historians from antiquity to 1800: An international dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1989. . Woolf, D. R., Kathryn M. Brammall, Greg Bak. A global encyclopedia of historical writing. Garland, 1998. .

History by era

Ancient history Bhattacharyya, Narendra Nath. The Geographical dictionary: Ancient and early medieval India. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1991. . Leroi-Gourham, André, José Garanger, Dominique Baffier. Dictionnaire de la préhistoire. Presses universitaires de France, 1988. . (French) Salisbury, Joyce E., Mary Lefkowitz. Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world. ABC-CLIO, 2001. .

Classical era

Avi-Yonah, Michael, Israel Shatzman, F. W. Walbank.Illustrated encyclopaedia of the classical world. Sampson Low, 1976. . Cancik, Hubert, Helmuth Schneider, Christine F. Salazar, David E. Orton. Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the ancient world. Brill, 2002–. . Daremberg, Charles Victor. Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines, d'après les textes et les monuments. Hachette, 1877–1919. (French). De Grummond, Nancy Thomson. An encyclopedia of the history of classical archaeology. Greenwood Press, 1996. . Grant, Michael, Rachel Kitzinger. Civilization of the ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. Scribner's, 1988. . Hazel, John. Who's who in the Greek world. Routledge, 2000. . Hazel, John. Who's who in the Roman world. Routledge. . Hornblower, Simon, Antony Spawforth. The Oxford classical dictionary. Oxford University Press, 2003. . Hornblower, Simon, Antony Spawforth. The Oxford companion to classical civilization. Oxford University Press, 1998. . Pauly, August Friedrich von. Paulys real-encyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Supplement: Neue Bearbeitung unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Fachgenossen. J. B. Metzler, 1903–1978. Paulys real-encyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft: neue Bearbeitung unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher Fachgenossen. J.B. Metzler, 1894–1972. (German) Salisbury, Joyce E., Mary Lefkowitz. Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world. ABC-CLIO, 2001. . Shipley, Graham. The Cambridge dictionary of classical civilization. Cambridge University Press, 2006. . Speake, Graham. Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic tradition. Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.

Middle Ages Bhattacharyya, Narendra Nath. The Geographical dictionary: Ancient and early medieval India. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1991. . Broughton, Bradford B., Megan Broughton Blumbergs. Dictionary of medieval knighthood and chivalry. Greenwood Press, 1986. . Chevalier, Ulysse. Répertoire des sources historiques du moyen âge. A. Picard, 1905–1907. Crabtree, Pam J. Medieval archaeology: An encyclopedia. Garland, 2001. . Dahmus, Joseph. Dictionary of Medieval Civilization. Macmillan, 1984. Fritze, Ronald H., William B. Robison. Historical dictionary of late medieval England, 1272–1485. Greenwood Press, c2002. . Gerli, E. Michael, Samuel G. Armistead. Medieval Iberia: An encyclopedia. Routledge, 2003. . International encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages (IEMA): A supplement to LexMA-online. Brepols. Available online here. Jeep, John M. Medieval Germany: An encyclopedia. Garland, 2001. . Johnson, Ruth A. All things medieval: an encyclopedia of the medieval world. Greenwood, 2011. . Jordan, William C. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004–. . Kazhdan, Alexander B. The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press, 1991. . Khan, Iqtidar Alam. Historical dictionary of medieval India. Scarecrow Press, 2008. . Langer, Lawrence N. Historical dictionary of medieval Russia. Scarecrow Press, 2002. . Lexikon des Mittelalters online (LexMA). Brepols. Available online here. (German). Loyn, H. R. Middle Ages: A Concise Encyclopedia. Thames & Hudson, 1989. Meri, Josef W., Jere L. Bacharach. Medieval Islamic civilization: An encyclopedia. Routledge, 2006. . Meyer, Otto, Renate Klauser. Clavis mediaevalis: Kleines Wörterbuch der Mittelalterforschung. O. Harrassowitz, 1962. (German). Murray, Alan V. The Crusades: An encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 2006. . Nicol, Donald MacGillivray. A biographical dictionary of the Byzantine Empire. Seaby, 1991. . ORB: The online reference book for medieval studies. Kathryn Talarico College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Available online here. Pulsiano, Phillip, Kirsten Wolf, Paul Acker. Medieval Scandinavia: An encyclopedia. Garland, 1993. . Rosser, John H. Historical dictionary of Byzantium. Scarecrow Press, 2001. . Roth, Norman. Medieval Jewish civilization: An encyclopedia. Routledge, 2003. . Slack, Corliss Konwiser. Historical dictionary of the crusades. Scarecrow Press, 2003. . Snodgrass, Mary Ellen, Linda Campbell Franklin. Who's who in the Middle Ages. McFarland, 2001. . Strayer, Joseph R. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Scribner's, 1982–1989. Vauchez, André, R. B. Dobson, Michael Lapidge. Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Editions du Cerf; Fitzroy Dearborn; Città nuova, 2000. . Xiong, Victor Cunrui. Historical dictionary of medieval China. Scarecrow Press, 2009. .

Renaissance Bergin, Thomas G. and Jennifer Speake. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Facts on File, 1987. Bergin, Thomas Goddard, Jennifer Speake. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Facts on File, 2004. . Bietenholz, Peter G., Thomas B. Deutscher. Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press, 1985–1987. . Campbell, Gordon. The Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance. Oxford University Press, 2003. . Grendler, Paul F., Renaissance Society of America. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Scribner's in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999. . Nauert, Charles Garfield. Historical dictionary of the Renaissance. Scarecrow Press, 2004. . Robin, Diana Maury, Anne R. Larsen, Carole Levin. Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England. ABC-CLIO, 2007. .

Reformation Bergin, Thomas Goddard, Jennifer Speake. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Facts on File, 2004. . Bietenholz, Peter G., Thomas B. Deutscher. Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press, 1985–1987. .

20th Century Brownstone, David and Irene Franck. Dictionary of 20th Century History. Prentice Hall, 1990. Burnett, Thom. Conspiracy Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedia of Conspiracy Theories Drexel, John. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of the 20th Century. Facts on File, 1991. Palmowski, Jan. A dictionary of contemporary world history: From 1900 to the present day. Oxford University Press, 2003. .