Citation: Hienton, Truman E., and Kathryn McMahon. Turn the Switch: Let Electricity Do the Work. Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, 1926. Library Item Date: 1926...Continue Reading Truman E. Hienton and Kathryn McMahon, Turn the Switch: Let Electricity Do the Work, 1926.| Energy History
Citation: Carrol, Alice. “Selling the Electric Idea to the Ladies.” National Electragist 22, no. 2 (December 1922): 29-31. Library Item Date: December 1922...Continue Reading Alice, Carrol, “Selling the Electric Idea to the Ladies,” 1922.| Energy History
Citation: General Electric Company. The Home of a Hundred Comforts. Bridgeport, Conn: General Electric Company Merchandising Division, 1925. Library Item Date: Dec 1925...Continue Reading General Electric Company, The Home of a Hundred Comforts, 1925.| Energy History
Citation: Jane Lane, “Come Out of the Kitchen,” Electric Light and Power 4, no. 7 (July 1926): 58-64. Library Item Date: July 1926...Continue Reading Jane Lane, “Come Out of the Kitchen,” July, 1926.| Energy History
Citation: T. Vernette Morse, “Electricity in the Household,” Popular Electricity 3, no. 10 (February 1911): 924-925. Library Item Date: February 1911...Continue Reading T. Vernette Morse, “Electricity in the Household,” February, 1911.| Energy History
Many energy justice battles have been waged over the environmental impacts of energy infrastructures. Community members and activists frequently work to ensure that marginalized and vulnerable populations are not made to bear the environmental burdens of energy systems. One of the most famous examples of this principle of energy justice developed around the Dakota Access...Continue Reading Standing Rock Protests| Energy History
In 1968, oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, sparking hasty plans by multinational oil companies for the construction of a Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). The problem for the oil companies was that Alaska Natives were then in negotiations with federal and state authorities over each parties’ land claims in the new state. Alaskan Natives,...Continue Reading TAPS and Native Land Claims| Energy History
Energy justice often means sovereignty over energy systems, and for many of the Native American tribes whose reservation lands encompass energy resources, this means control over those resources. For decades, the federal government maintained final authority over tribes’ leasing agreements with mining companies. As a result, many tribal authorities fought to control their own decisions...Continue Reading Resource Mining and Native Sovereignty, 1977.| Energy History
Between 1946 and 1986, the Navajo Nation was the location of intensive uranium mining operations that supported U.S. nuclear arms and energy programs. While nuclear programs championed a futuristic energy source, Navajo communities increasingly confronted the ecological and health risks associated with uranium mining. From radioactive materials to waste runoff, citizens of the Navajo Nation...Continue Reading Uranium Mining in the Navajo Nation.| Energy History
Donald J. Trump, Executive Order 14154: Unleashing American Energy. Federal Register 90, no. 19 (January 29, 2025): 8353–8359.| Energy History