Expert historical consulting tailored for you.
Harrison History Consulting (HHC) provides informed historical consulting services by highly-trained and experienced historians. HHC’s consulting practice is founded on years of experience in academia, historical research and editorial services, industry consulting, and government services contracting. Our services address a wide range of historical consulting needs for academic institutions, museums, libraries, archives, government agencies, and businesses. While we offer some services to individuals and their families, these services are restricted and available only with the agreement of the practice members; this includes genealogical research and related requests.
Our services
Academic services
Curriculum and program assessments and design, program review support, institutional research and historical research, expert/subject matter requirements, NAGPRA consulting, and editorial services for academic institutions.
Research and collections services
Copy and content editing for academic or professional publications; Web site content development, editing, and review; exhibit text and plan review and editing; historical research project planning reviews, development, and editing for publication/dissemination.
Editorial and business services
Historical research, writing, and program/exhibit development, collections appraisal and policy work, site assessments, collections and exhibition planning and execution, NAGPRA consulting, and expert litigation support for museums, libraries, archives, and government agencies.
About us
Principal Historian: Jay T. Harrison, Ph.D., studied early American, colonial Latin American, and late medieval history at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. where he received both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. An experienced program director and analyst in industry and government consulting, he has served as a museum, archive, and research library director and a tenured history professor since becoming a full-time historian. He is a member of the faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design, and serves as a part-time section professor at the Gilder Lehrman Institute Master’s Program in American history hosted by Gettysburg College. Dr. Harrison is HHC’s practice lead and directs all projects under contract with our firm.
Our practice employs active historians in each project. Our historians are current full and part-time faculty members of U.S. and U.K. universities, working archvists, and retired historians on whose expertise we draw for projects large and small.
Contact us.
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For requests for information/requests for proposals, please contact us at requests@harrisonhistory.com.
All other inquiries should be directed to Jay Harrison at jay@harrisonhistory.com.