
Schools Education and Trade Publishing parts of Harcourt Education were sold by Reed Elsevier to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group. The Harcourt Children's Books division left the name intact on all of its books under that name as part of HMH.

As of 2012, all Harcourt books that have been re-released are under the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt name. It incorporated the Harcourt name to form Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Houghton Mifflin acquired Harcourt in 2007. From 1919 to 1982, it was based in New York City. The company was last based in San Diego, California, with editorial/sales/marketing/rights offices in New York City and Orlando, Florida, and was known at different stages in its history as Harcourt Brace, & Co.

Harcourt ( / ˈ h ɑːr k ɔːr t/) was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.
