Tight oil/fast oil: life and death in the Bakken oil fields. Workers have been dying on the job with unusual frequency in the North Dakota oil boom. This talk explores the geological, technological, and political-economic conditions by which 'tight oil' becomes 'fast oil', with consequences for workers and communities locally, nationally, and gl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Braun, Bruce
Created:
2016-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Photo of ruined factory buildings and metal bridge with barrels piled up in front of the buildings and railroad track in foreground. Some message written on the front side of postcard
Creator:
Monsseron, M.
Created:
1919
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
Director General of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Operations Europe: Lieutenant General Frederick Morgan. Morgan signed the World War II Peace Agreement at Reims, France, for Great Britain. Photographed at his office in Arolsen, Germany.1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Lien Chung grew up affluent in Vietnam, but was forced to leave by the rise of the Vietcong and the ensuing war. Her escape was a harrowing and traumatic journey involving starvation and pirate attacks. She was eventually relocated to the United States and adjusted to the new culture with difficulty.
Creator:
Chung, Kalvin
Created:
2019-03-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center