Brian Black

For the rugby player, see Brian Black (sportsman).

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; ISBN 0801877326, ISBN 978-0801877322)
• Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012, ISBN 0742556549, ISBN 978-0742556546), selected as a CHOICE outstanding academic book for 2012

He is the editor of:

• Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of History and Science (4 vols, ISBN 1598847619, ISBN 978-1598847611)

Other publications

• Gettysburg Contested, August 15, 2013 | ISBN 1938086120 | ISBN 978-1938086120
• Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century American Life, May 30, 2006 | ISBN 0313332002 | ISBN 978-0313332005
• Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life, April 30, 2006 | ISBN 0313332010 | ISBN 978-0313332012
• America at War!: Battles That Turned the Tide, 1992 ISBN 0-590-45505-2
• Nature's Entrepot, November 16, 2012 | ISBN 0822944170 | ISBN 978-0822944171
• Alternative Energy, February 26, 2010 | ISBN 0313344841 | ISBN 978-0313344848
• Global Warming, June 2, 2010 | ISBN 0313345228 | ISBN 978-0313345227
• Great Debates in American Environmental History, May 30, 2008 | ISBN 0313339309 | ISBN 978-0313339301

External links

• Official website