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