Historical Research

Research and analysis for litigation,
regulatory compliance, and public relations

Historical questions arise in many circumstances, but the answers are particularly crucial in sensitive legal matters and controversial public relations disclosures.

Our professional historians have the knowledge, skills, and experience to address such questions by timely and cost-effective execution of well-thought-out historical research plans.

Call us at (301) 279-9697 or contact History Associates for a customized proposal to meet your historical research needs.

An Experienced Historical Research Company

Whether investigating the environmental history of a modern industrial site or identifying possible connections to the eighteenth-century slave trade, we have a broad understanding of the historical context and know where to find the crucial documentary evidence.

Our historians possess an unsurpassed knowledge of the federal records system (including the National Archives) and have conducted research across the country and around the world in a wide variety of archives, libraries, government offices, and private collections.

History Associates has worked on hundreds of investigations to assist attorneys and their clients in resolving historical issues at the heart of legal disputes, regulatory matters, and public relations crises. Clients also use our knowledge of history and records-keeping practices to inform the work of other experts, develop discovery requests and interrogatories, and evaluate legal strategies in light of the historical evidence.

Historical Research Services

With our historical research expertise, we can decipher the arcane systems used to organize historical records, effectively employ on-line resources, develop targeted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and compile and deliver the evidence in a variety of formats.

Moreover, History Associates prepares an array of customized work products that analyze our findings to convey a clear understanding of the historical record. The legal process requires authentication of historical evidence, and our historians follow careful procedures to document their historical research and have testified regarding their sources and the stories they tell.

Our Historical Research Firm has A Wide Range Of Skills

Many of our clients draw on History Associates’ specialized expertise in business, technology, military, and government history. We are also called on to creatively address historical questions associated with a broad range of issues including

• PRP Searches
• CERCLA Cost Recovery
• Government Contract Searches
• Manufactured Gas Plant Research
• Site and Land Use Histories
• Product Liability Research
• Toxic Torts Research
• Holocaust Forced Labor and Looted Assets Research
• Legislative and Regulatory History
• Slavery Disclosure Research
• Native American Rights Disputes
• Formerly Used Defense Sites
• Insurance Recovery Research
• Corporate Succession
• Watershed and Water Use Histories
• Trade Literature Research
• Historical Standards Searches
• Natural Resource Damages Research