Lake Saint Mary on Going-to-the-Sun highway. Glacier National Park, Montana. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Morgan, Angel & Associates is a team of experienced historians specializing in historical research and public policy analysis. Our fields of expertise include federal Indian policy, tribal acknowledgement, environmental policy, public utility regulation, public land issues, and natural resource ownership and development. Much of our work involves questions arising in the courts and in legislatures. We provide skilled archival researchers, fact-finders, and expert witnesses who can testify regarding the broad context and detailed sequence of a set of past events, the formulation and implementation of a specific government policy, or the legislative intent behind a particular statute.

In the area of Indian affairs, for example, Morgan, Angel & Associates combines painstaking archival research with broad knowledge of the issues to provide descriptions of governmental policies and actions pertaining to such matters as treaties, land cessions, the reservation system, allotment, leasing, trust accounting, and natural resource development. The same combination of detailed research and broad knowledge is applied to our work on environmental issues and on Superfund cases arising under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). We locate and assemble the documents needed to understand private and governmental activities affecting a given waste site. We also have the broader background needed to place past environmental practices in context and to help determine who had primary responsibility for critical waste disposal decisions.

Morgan, Angel & Associates also has much to offer governmental agencies, associations, and business firms seeking to better understand their own history and to learn from experience in addressing contemporary challenges. We number among our staff well-recognized professionals experienced in writing policy and organizational histories and in using history to inform discussion of public policy issues by decision makers and members of the broader public. Books authored by Morgan Angel staff members address such subjects as federal dams and their impact on Indian reservations; ownership and regulation of water supply, electric utility, and communications systems; publicly-owned electric utilities and the economic development of the American West; and state and federal regulation of water pollution.

Morgan, Angel & Associates has a well-earned reputation for the quality and on-time delivery of its research and historical consulting products. With respect to Federal Indian policies, tribal histories, land use and natural resources issues, environmental and CERCLA questions, organizational and policy histories, and matters involving public utility ownership and regulation, Morgan, Angel & Associates, Public Policy and Historical Consultants, is ready to assist you.