Research in archival collections, online databases, oral history, and other hidden sources grounds each story. We collaborate with our clients to create a list of guiding questions to determine which threads to follow.

While the general history of your family or organization may be widely known, we help you discover your usable past. Our outside expertise highlights your history’s significance and how it differentiates you. These findings will focus your marketing narrative or philanthropic mission as you draw strength from the past to move forward.

With a clear sense of purpose and audience, our analysis and design transform historical research into an engaging story. Your history can be presented as curriculum plans, tours, books, booklets, websites, public lectures, videos, exhibits, or a combination of the above.

As a full-service design-build firm, we produce complete projects from start to finish. Each project is different, from a limited website done over a short period of time to a full-length book or 30-minute documentary developed over a year or longer. Our rates for partner historians, associate historians, and designers vary, but you can expect our billable hourly rate to be competitive with traditional consulting firms.

This article, written for Historic New England, provides one example of a broad and successful research project.