Line at a gas station June 15, 1979.
The Center for Public History at the University of Houston will host the first in a series of energy history workshops on November 9-10, 2007.
This conference will take place in the Plaza Room (247) at the University of Houston Hilton Hotel.
"American Energy Policy in the 1970s" seeks to provide a historical context to American energy policy. Through a focus on the 1970s it hopes to use a time of change to understand how this decade served to transform energy policy and the role it played in changing the energy industry, the politics of energy, foreign policy, and environmentalism.
The featured speaker will be Prof. Richard H.K. Vietor (Harvard).
Updates
A detailed conference schedule can now be found on the conference program page. A complete list of conference participants is provided on the "about" page.
A growing number of conference papers are available on the conference program webpage; we expect all conference participants and audience members will have read these papers.
For a floor plan of the University of Houston Hilton Hotel, click here.
