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Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults, including the Best American series (annual collections of previously-published fiction and non-fiction). The company is part of the Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group. A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...
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A reference work is a compendium of information, usually of a specific type, compiled for ease of reference. ...
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For the book by Chuck Palahniuk titled Non-fiction, see Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories. ...
The Best American series is an annually-published collection of books, published by Houghton Mifflin, each of which features a different genre or theme. ...
Company history
In 1832, William Ticknor and James Thomas Fields had 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. Shortly after, Houghton also founded a publishing company with partner George Mifflin. In 1880, Ticknor and Fields, and Houghton and Mifflin merged their operations, combining the literary works of writers with the expertise of a publisher, creating a new partnership named Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
William Davis Ticknor (August 6, 1810-April 10, 1864) was an American publisher in Boston, Massachusetts and a founder of the publishing house Ticknor and Fields. ...
James Thomas Fields (December 31, 1817 - April 24, 1881), American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. ...
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau[1]) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance...
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Henry Oscar Houghton (April 30, 1823 - August 25, 1895) was an American publisher, co-founder of Houghton Mifflin, and a mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...
Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
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A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...
A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...
Shortly thereafter, the company established an Educational Department and from 1891 to 1908, sales of educational materials increased by five hundred percent. Soon after 1916, Houghton Mifflin became involved in publishing standardized tests and testing materials, working closely with developers of such tests, including E.F. Lindquist. The company was the fourth-largest educational publisher in the United States in 1921. Today, the company has combined its assessment products within Riverside Publishing, including San Francisco-based Edusoft. Houghton Mifflin sold its professional testing unit Promissor to Pearson plc in 2006. Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...
1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. ...
Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Pearson plc LSE: PSON;NYSE: PSO is a London-based media conglomerate. ...
In 1967, Houghton Mifflin became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol HTN. The company is currently privately held and no longer trades under this symbol. Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ...
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ...
During the 1990s, Houghton Mifflin acquired both McDougal Littell and Company, an educational publisher for secondary school materials, and D.C. Heath and Company, a publisher of supplemental educational materials. In 1996, the company created their Great Source Education Group to combine the supplemental material product lines of their School Division and these two companies. For the band, see 1990s (band). ...
Daniel Collamore Heath (1843-1908) D.C. Heath and Company is a small publishing company located at 125 Spring Street in Lexington, Massachusetts. ...
Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
In 2001, Houghton Mifflin was acquired by French media giant Vivendi Universal. In 2002, facing mounting financial and legal pressures, Vivendi sold Houghton to private equity investors Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital, and The Blackstone Group. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...
Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French conglomerate active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ...
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Bain Capital LLC is a Boston, Massachusetts-based private equity firm founded in 1984 by Mitt Romney, the late Governor of Massachusetts, and two other partners from the consulting firm Bain & Company: T. Coleman Andrews III and Eric Kriss. ...
The Blackstone Group is a private investment and advisory firm founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman. ...
On December 22, 2006, it was announced that Riverdeep PLC had completed its acquisition of Houghton Mifflin. The new joint enterprise would be called the Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group. Riverdeep paid 1.75 billion in cash and assumed $1.61 billion in debt from the private investment firms Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital Partners and The Blackstone Group. [1] Tony Lucki, a former non-executive director of Riverdeep, will remain in his position as Houghton Mifflin's chief executive officer. [2] is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Riverdeep Interactive Learning is a publishing house for educational online and CDROM products based in San Francisco and Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1995. ...
The initials PLC after a UK or Irish company name indicate that it is a public limited company, a type of limited company whose shares may be offered for sale to the public. ...
On July 16, 2007 Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann divisions of Reed Elsevier for $4 billion. This acquisition is pending regulatory approval.
Locations - Boston, Massachusetts (headquarters; School, College, and International divisions)
- New York, New York (Trade and Reference division)
- Wilmington, Massachusetts (Great Source Education Group)
- St. Charles, Illinois (College Faculty Services)
- Evanston, Illinois (McDougal Littell)
- Itasca, Illinois (Riverside Publishing)
- San Francisco, California (Edusoft)
- Indianapolis (East Side),Indiana (College)
- Indianapolis (West Side),Indiana (Trade)
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Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...
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Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area Ranked 25th - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 390 miles (629 km) - % water 4. ...
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Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area Ranked 25th - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 390 miles (629 km) - % water 4. ...
Itasca is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. ...
Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area Ranked 25th - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 390 miles (629 km) - % water 4. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area Ranked 38th - Total 36,418 sq mi (94,321 km²) - Width 140 miles (225 km) - Length 270 miles (435 km) - % water 1. ...
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Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area Ranked 38th - Total 36,418 sq mi (94,321 km²) - Width 140 miles (225 km) - Length 270 miles (435 km) - % water 1. ...
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