Bill Morgan, co-founder of Morgan, Angel & Associates, died on June 24, 2022. Bill is survived by his wife, Patricia Morgan, and their daughter, Kathryn Morgan. William Arthur Morgan was born on November 2, 1937, in New York City. Bill joined the United States Marine Corps when he was 17 and retired as a Major [...]

The Guerrier Family Memorial Scholarship honors the memory of Steven W. Guerrier (JMU History faculty member 1988 – 2021) and his daughter Jacqueline (Jackie) D. Guerrier (JMU ’14, MA ’18). The scholarship will be awarded on the basis of merit to an undergraduate student or students who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement and who is/are pursuing [...]

April 22, 2021 - Dr. Jay Brigham participated as a panel member for Environmental History Week 2021. This session, Public Historians and Research on Contaminated Sites, was a roundtable discussion exploring best practices for archival research, writing, consultation to attorneys, and expert witness testimony related to contaminated sites. Topics included differences between academic research and research [...]

New York, NY, January 4, 2020 Ed Angel, Of Counsel, chaired a panel discussion on Historians as Expert Witnesses: Consulting and Testifying, at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in January 2020. The panel examined the role of historians in litigation, which has been a central part of Morgan Angel’s business for more [...]

Dr. Jay Brigham recently attended the 59th Annual Conference of the Western History Association held in Las Vegas, Nevada October 16-19, 2019.  Dr. Brigham spoke in the session Navigating the Historical Profession: Different Career Options for Historians, sponsored by the WHA Public History Committee and the WHA Graduate Student Caucus (WHA-GSC).

Research Associate Kris Autobee participated in a Panel Discussion titled “Urban Farming”  at the Lakewood Historical Society Annual Meeting, Lakewood, Colorado on November 14, 2019. This panel discussion looked at land use options for the Schnell Farm which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.  Autobee’s “Lakewood Farms: Big Ag to [...]

Research Associate Kris Autobee was a participant in PastForward 2019, National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, Denver, Colorado on October 12, 2019. As field study session manager of “A Peculiar Wilderness: Neon on West Colfax”, Ms. Autobee organized a city planner, a neon bender, and a grass roots organizer on a tour of neon sign [...]

Research Associate Jennifer Lapp recently moderated a session for the Society for American Archeology (SAA) pertaining to how to get a job in related fields.  She has been a member of the society for over 15 years and will be a moderator at the April 2020 SAA 85th Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas.

Senior Research Associate Peter Jones was recently involved in a project in collaboration with the Heurich House Museum and Oregon State University to recreate Washington D.C.'s once popular Senate Lager.  This project began after Mr. Jones stumbled upon a document at the National Archives that included an analysis of the beer recipe and was recently [...]