Professor Megan Black is an Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

The Global Interior

William Appleman Williams

Ian Tyrell

Kurk Dorsey Bernath Lecture

Melanie McAlister

Monica Kim

Stuart Schrader

Amy Offner

Genevieve Clutario