Uncovering America’s First Oil Landscape
In Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Valley, the messy legacy of the country’s first petroleum boom.
In Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Valley, the messy legacy of the country’s first petroleum boom.
A century ago, East Chicago, Indiana drafted its ideal future. Here's how that went.
The state’s early industry remade more than the landscape.
An excerpt from "Citizen Reporters."
By Elizabeth Catte How Ida Tarbell came to write The History of the Standard Oil Company—her landmark 1904 muckraking exposé [...]