Review and Herald Publishing Association

{{Short description|US Seventh-day Adventist publishing house}} {{for|the magazine formerly known as the Review and Herald|Adventist Review}} {{Infobox company

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| | founded = Rocky Hill, Connecticut ({{Start date|1849}}) | founder = James White | logo = Review-and-Herald-logo.jpg | type = Private | genre = Religious | hq_location_city = Hagerstown, Maryland | hq_location_country = US | area_served = World | key_people = Mark B. Thomas, President | num_employees = 175 (2011) | industry = Publishing | products = Books, Magazines, CDs, DVDs, Tracts | revenue = | website = [http://www.reviewandherald.com www.reviewandherald.com] }} {{Seventh-day Adventism}} The '''Review and Herald Publishing Association''' was the older of two Seventh-day Adventist publishing houses in North America. The organization published books, magazines, study guides, CDs, videos and games for Adventist churches, schools and individual subscribers. It also printed and distributed the ''Adventist Review'' magazine. In 2014 the Review and Herald Publishing Association decided to remain as a publisher, but without printing and distribution facilities. It maintains a board and administrators.

==History== thumb|Review and Herald Publishing Association in 1868 The roots of the Review and Herald Publishing Association go back to 1849 when James White produced ''The Present Truth'' and, in 1850, ''The Advent Review''. From there the publication house grew and moved to Battle Creek, Michigan.

A major fire on December 30, 1902, destroyed the offices. The headquarters was then moved to Takoma Park, Maryland. In the 1950s, the association developed ''The Bible Story'' by Arthur S. Maxwell. The set was notable for its size—including 411 stories from the Bible—and for having color illustrations on each page opening—an extravagant expense for a book publisher at that time.

In 1983, under the leadership of Elder Bud Otis, the organization moved to a new, $14 million facility in Hagerstown, Maryland, on a {{convert|127|acre|km2|adj=on}} campus; at that time the publishing house had 350 employees and an annual payroll of $6.7 million.<ref name="HagerstownArea">{{cite news|title=Adventists to move to Hagerstown area|publisher=Baltimore Sun|date=5 March 1981|id={{ProQuest|535957523}}}}</ref><ref name="McChesneyStory">{{cite news|last1=McChesney|first1=Andrew|title=Made In Russia Review and Herald's remarkable story|url=https://archives.adventistworld.org/2014/december/made-in-russia.html|access-date=25 May 2018|publisher=Adventist World|date=2 December 2014|archive-date=27 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227040634/https://archives.adventistworld.org/2014/december/made-in-russia.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Edson White established the Gospel Herald Publishing Company in Nashville, Tennessee, which was renamed to Southern Publishing Association in 1901. It merged with the Review and Herald in 1980.<ref>[http://www.rhpa.org/index.php/general/our_history.rhpa Our History: A Short History of the Review and Herald] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920192731/http://www.rhpa.org/index.php/general/our_history.rhpa |date=2010-09-20 }}. Accessed 2007-12-12</ref>

==In creative works== The 2014 documentary film ''War in Heaven, War on Earth: The Birth of the Seventh-day Adventist Church During the American Civil War'' by Chris Small and Loren Small discusses the formation of the Review and Herald Publishing Association.<ref>{{Citation|title=War in Heaven, War on Earth|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt12327506/|access-date=2020-05-21}}</ref>

The ''Liberty'' magazine is published since 1906, currently having a circulation of under 200,000.<ref>{{cite web | title=About Us & Contact | url=https://www.libertymagazine.org/about }}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.reviewandherald.org Review and Herald Publishing Association Official website] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Review And Herald Publishing Association}} Category:Christian publishing companies Category:Card game publishing companies Category:Religious tract publishing companies Category:Seventh-day Adventist media Category:Book publishing companies based in Maryland Category:Magazine publishing companies of the United States Category:Hagerstown, Maryland Category:Mass media in the Hagerstown metropolitan area Category:Privately held companies based in Connecticut Category:Rocky Hill, Connecticut Category:1849 establishments in Connecticut Category:Former Seventh-day Adventist institutions Category:Defunct Seventh-day Adventist organizations based in the United States Category:1980 disestablishments in the United States