Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt （/ˈhoʊtən/; HMH） is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.
The company is based in the Boston Financial District.
It was formerly known as Houghton Mifflin Company, but changed its name following the 2007 acquisition of Harcourt Publishing.
Prior to March 2010, it was a subsidiary of Education Media and Publishing Group Limited, an Irish-owned holding company registered in the Cayman Islands and formerly known as Riverdeep.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt at 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, Massachusetts In 1832, William Ticknor and John Allen purchased a bookselling business in Boston and began to involve themselves in publishing; James T. Fields joined as a partner in 1843.
Fields and Ticknor gradually gathered an impressive list of writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.
The duo formed a close relationship with Riverside Press, a Boston printing company owned by Henry Oscar Houghton.
Houghton also founded his own publishing company with partner Melancthon Hurd in 1864, with George H. Mifflin joining the partnership in 1872.
In 1878, Ticknor and Fields, now under the leadership of James R. Osgood, found itself in financial difficulties and merged its operations with Hurd and Houghton.
The new partnership, named Houghton, Osgood and Company, and based in Boston's Winthrop Square, held the rights to the literary works of both pu...