Written Word

Research & Writing

Among a wide range of interests, Morgan identifies most personally with the role of writer. This vein of work ranges from authoring books and freelance writing to legal research and drafting, generating and curating museum exhibits and public installations, podcast research and content production, and promotional business biographies and outreach. Some examples of work includes:

      Books:   

• Tanked In Cincinnati: Fortune & Calamity In The Beer Business (History Press 2024)
• Cincinnati Beer (History Press 2019)
• Over-the-Rhine: When Beer Was King (History Press 2010)

     Recent Feature Articles:

• “The Belle, The Cad, and the Sex Scandal,” Cincinnati Magazine (March 2024)
• “Uncovering The Harrison Horror,” Cincinnati Magazine (Jan. 2021)
• “The Story Behind the (Mostly) Friendly Spirits Who Roam Arnold’s Bar & Grill” CityBeat (Oct. 2022)
• “A 140-Year-Old Mayoral Scandal: Sketchy Citizenship, Rampant Corruption and Voter Fraud,” CityBeat. (Nov. 4, 2020)
• “Proposed Federal Legislation Could Help Restore Ohio’s First Black Cemetery, Madisonville’s United American Cemetery,” CityBeat. (Aug. 12, 2020)
• “Price Hill’s Neglected 170-Year-Old Potter’s Field Cemetery Has a Dark and Shameful Past,” CityBeat (July 22, 2020)
• “Examining the Complex History, Multiple Conflagrations and Reasons to Hope for Over-the-Rhine’s 1800s Jackson Brewery,” CityBeat (Feb. 18, 2020)