Historic Documents of the Oil Industry
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This volume explores the history of the oil industry through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the topic, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
This volume explores the history of the oil industry through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the topic, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copy Right
- Contents
- Reader’s Guide
- The U.S. Oil Industry: Historical Overview
- Oil Discovered in Pennsylvania in 1859
- Anthony F. Lucas: “The Great Oil Well near Beaumont Texas”
- Betty M. Miller: “Oil and Gas Production and Reserve Histories of the Appalachian Basin, 1859–1972”
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Ida M. Tarbell: The History of the Standard Oil Company
- Theodore Roosevelt: Special Message on the Oil Industry
- Standard Oil Company v. United States
- Charles Evans Hughes: Letter on Oil Negotiations with Turkey
- Standard Oil: The Reply to Mexico
- Upton Sinclair: Oil! A Novel
- National Industrial Recovery Act
- Roaldus Richmond: “Fill It Up, Sir?”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Executive Order 9276, Establishing the Petroleum Administration for War and Defining Its Functions and Duties
- Harold Ickes: Fightin’ Oil
- John C. Reed: Exploration of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 and Adjacent Areas in Northern Alaska, 1944–53
- E. J. McNulty: “How Much Oil?”
- Federal-Aid Highway Act
- Clean Air Act Vehicle Emissions Standards
- Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation about National Energy Policy
- Arthur F. Burns: Statement before the Joint Economic Committee
- Jimmy Carter: Address to the Nation on Energy
- Establishment of the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund
- Samuel K. Skinner and William K. Reilly: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Report to the President
- Jane Lyder: Our Natural Resources at Risk: The Short and Long Term Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
- Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling
- Joseph Mikrut: Increasing Domestic Oil Production
- Gavin Newsom: Executive Order N-79-20, Fracking Ban
- Obama Administration Finalizes Historic 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standards
- U.S. House Resolution 332: Proposed Green New Deal
- Donald Trump: Executive Order 14154, Unleashing American Energy
Tom Lansford is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast. His research interests include foreign and security policy, and the U.S. presidency. Dr. Lansford is the author, coauthor, editor or coeditor of more than 60 books, and the author of more than one hundred essays, book chapters, encyclopedic entries, and reviews. His sole-authored books include: A Bitter Harvest: U.S. Foreign Policy and Afghanistan (2003), the Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy Since the Cold War (2007) and 9/11 and the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Chronology and Reference Guide (2011). His edited collections include: America’s War on Terror (2003; second edition 2009), Judging Bush (2009), The Obama Presidency: A Preliminary Assessment (2012) and A Transformation in American National Politics: The 2012 Presidential Election (2016). Dr. Lansford served as the editor of the Political Handbook of the World since 2012.
