Brian Black is an American professor of history and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University at Altoona and head of its department of Arts and Humanities. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1988 from Gettysburg College, a Master of Arts in American Civilization in 1991 from New York University and a Doctor of Education degree in American Studies from the University of Kansas in 1996.
Books Black is the author of : Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (Johns Hopkins, 2003; , ) Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012, , ), selected as a CHOICE outstanding academic book for 2012 He is the editor of: Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of History and Science (4 vols, , )
Other publications Gettysburg Contested, August 15, 2013 | | Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American Life, May 30, 2006 | | Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life, April 30, 2006 | | America at War!: Battles That Turned the Tide, 1992 Nature's Entrepot, November 16, 2012 | | Alternative Energy, February 26, 2010 | | Global Warming, June 2, 2010 | | Great Debates in American Environmental History, May 30, 2008 | |
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