Time.com Photo Essays
North Dakota, a Portrait of an Oil Boom
North Dakota’s oil boom has been called everything from the region’s equivalent of a gold rush, to its version of Silicon Valley. And it’s all thanks to a the...
LIFE in the Middle East: Power and Petroleum in the Gulf in 1945
Oil. A simple word that for much of the 20th century, and well into the 21st, has meant unimaginable wealth for a very few; plentiful and (for a time, at least)...
