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Harold Mason and Harold Schwartz founded Greenwood Press in 1967 with a mission to rescue forgotten texts from the dustbin of history. The company began in Greenwood, New York, a small town that would become the unlikely birthplace of a publishing empire.
At the beginning of 1990, the company's name was changed from Greenwood Press, Inc., to Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG). This change occurred after the company acquired Bergin & Garvey and Auburn House in 1989.
On the 1st of October 2008, ABC-Clio and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced an agreement granting ABC-Clio a perpetual license to use the imprints and publish the titles of Greenwood Publishing. The 88 Post Road West office in Westport, Connecticut, was closed as a result, and layoffs began in December 2008.
In December 2021, Bloomsbury Publishing bought ABC-Clio and with it Greenwood, marking a new chapter in the company's history. The acquisition brought the Greenwood name under the umbrella of a British publishing house, signaling a global expansion of its reach and influence.
Robert Hagelstein was named president in 1973 after Mason and Schwartz left the company, and he held the position until his retirement at the end of 1999. During those twenty-seven years, the press wound down its reprint activities and published more than 10,000 titles.
The Greenwood name stopped being used for new books in 2023. This sale represented the end of an era for Greenwood, as the company was absorbed into a larger publishing conglomerate following the 2009 transfer to ABC-Clio.