Oil

<p><span class="deck">The story of the first great Texas oil well, which ushered in a new century and a new age, as remembered by participants</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> How gullible Edwin L. Drake, an ailing ex-railroad conductor, brought about America’s first and gaudiest oil boom</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> America’s greed for oil has drastically upset the ecological balance of Alaska’s North Slope, and the end is not in sight</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> HOW AND WHY THE UNITED STATES GOT INVOLVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Our Frontier Heritage of Waste</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How Americans Met the First Great Gasoline Crisis—Nearly Forty Years Ago</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The “loser decade” that at first seemed nothing more than a breathing space between the high drama of the 1960s and whatever was coming next is beginning to reveal itself as a richer time than we thought.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, CARS CAN STILL FILL UP AT A FOUNT THAT NURTURED THE AUTOMOTIVE AGE IN ITS INFANCY.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The problem is as old as the industry itself.</span></p>

<p>No one knew that oil could come from the ground until a bankrupt group of speculators hit pay dirt in northwestern Pennsylvania.</p>