
Dr. Robert Lifset
@rlifset
Energy and Environmental Historian at the University of Oklahoma and author of Power on the Hudson (amazon.com/Power-Hudson-E…
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Pleased to share a free excerpt from WVU's upcoming collection American Energy Cinema (edited by Dr. Robert Lifset, @raechellutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre) about Appalachian history and the movie Matewan. booktimist.com/2023/01/25/joh…




Join us virtually today! Come for the yellowcake, stay for the nuclear conspiracy! Consortium #HistSTM Brian Leech Victor McFarland Dr. Robert Lifset

Consortium #HistSTM Energy History Working Group, Fri June 9, 1:30 PM EST. Two Euro #energyhist papers: Tobah Aukland-Peck, mines and British Modernism; Helge Wendt, coal waste in the interwar period in Fr and Ger. To see papers and meeting zoom, log in chstm.org/content/energy…. #envirohist


E was happy to give this talk on the 1973 "oil shock" at the Rachel Carson Center in the context of a stimulating conference ("Towards and Environmental History of the Oil Industry) organized by @odinnmelsted Cyrus Mody @moneschleper youtu.be/2rlI5WjBy3w


interesting source re: our conversation w/ Dr. Robert Lifset ab/ different policy aims of small & big US oil producers. Atlantic Richfield (as usual?) the company stirring things up (NB @odinnmelsted @Bron_Michiel)



We are hiring! Engineering Ethics in Society at CU Boulder 🦬 is looking for a full-time Teaching Assistant Professor in Hist of/Sci/Med/Tech or STS. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…. I'm chairing the committee. Please get in touch with questions.

Join the Consortium #HistSTM Energy History Working Group this friday (Sept 8) at 1:30 EST for our first meeting of 2023-24. We will discuss a paper from Tobah Aukland-Peck titled "Crude Oils: Petroleum Culture in Postwar Britain." Paper link + zoom: chstm.org/content/energy….

"New Perspectives in Energy History"-- we're going to bring back our one-day environmental history conference Yale University with a focus on energy history-- save the date and propose a paper environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/confe…

Join the Consortium #HistSTM Energy History Working Group this Friday, October 13, 1:30 pm EST to discuss Chao Ren's paper, “Global Circulation of Low-End Expertise: Knowledge, Hierarchy, and Labor Migration in a Burmese Oilfield.” Go to chstm.org/content/energy… zoom link + paper pdf.

Join the Consortium #HistSTM Energy History Working Group this Friday Nov 10 1:30 PM EST. We will discuss a paper from Petra Dolata and Victor McFarland on “Oil Consultant Walter J. Levy.” See chstm.org/content/energy… for zoom link + paper.

Join the Consortium #HistSTM Energy History Working Group this Friday Dec 8 1:30 PM EST. We will discuss a paper from Wout Saelens, “Energy politics: urban fuel policy and the transition to coal in Ghent (eighteenth-nineteenth centuries).” chstm.org/content/energy… for zoom link + paper.
