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.png) Logo of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, the ancestor created in 1960 and now a Holt McDougal imprint | |
| Parent company | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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| Founded | March 1960; 65 years ago (1960-03) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Publication types | Textbooks, children's books |
Holt McDougal is an Americanpublishing company, a division ofHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes intextbooks for use inhigh schools.
The Holt name is derived from that of U.S. publisherHenry Holt (1840–1926), co-founder of the earliest ancestor business, but Holt McDougal is distinct from contemporaryHenry Holt and Company, which claims the history from 1866. The companies publish different kinds of books.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston (HRW) was created in March 1960 by the merger of Henry Holt and Company of New York City (established 1866 as Leypoldt and Holt);Rinehart & Company of New York, descendant ofFarrar & Rinehart (est. 1929); and the John C. Winston Company of Philadelphia (est. 1884).The Wall Street Journal reported on March 1, 1960, that Holt stockholders had approved the merger, last of the three approvals. "Henry Holt is the surviving concern, but will be known as Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Inc."[1] In 1967, HRW was acquired byCBS.
In 1985 the retail publishing arm of HRW along with the Henry Holt name was acquired by theGeorg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group based in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck acquired the Macmillan name in 2001 and Henry Holt is now an imprint or division of the globalMacmillan Group (under Holtzbrinck; not to be confused with Macmillan US).
Also in 1985, the educational publishing arm along with the Holt, Rinehart and Winston name and logo (see image) was acquired byHarcourt. As Harcourt divested further, from 2001 HRW was a division ofHarcourt Education owned byReed Elsevier. Reed sold off parts of Harcourt Education including Holt, Rinehart, and Winston toHoughton Mifflin in 2007, part of a reorganization that created Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). HRW was then combined with Houghton Mifflin Company's McDougal Littell subsidiary to form Holt McDougal.
Holt McDougal publishes textbooks onmathematics,language arts,social studies,science,health, andworld language (French,Spanish, andGerman). It has published children's books for theWeekly Reader Book Club includingSweet Pickles,Fraggle Rock, andSnoopy. This American publishing company has offices in Austin, Texas and Evanston, Illinois and with its parent company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.[clarification needed]
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