I started keeping this list in November 2022 as it was rapidly becoming cumbersome to include bibliographies on my tiny mini-comics. I only include sources here if I do not put a bibliography in the zine itself.
Pennsylvanian Oil: An Ida Tarbell Origin Story- Volume 13, Issue 5
Black, Brian C. Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History. Rowman & LIttlefield Publishers, Inc: 2012
Black, Brian: Petrolia: The Landscape of America’s First Oil Boom. The Johns Hopkins University Press: 2000
Brady, Kathleen. Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker. University of Pittsburgh Press: 1989
Giddens, Paul. The Early Days of Oil: A Pictorial History of the Beginnings of the Industry in Pennsylvania. Princeton University Press: 1848
Olien, Diana Davids and Roger M. Olien. Oil and Ideology: The Cultural Creation of the American Petroleum Industry. The University of North Carolina Press: 2000
Rhodes, Richard. Energy: A Human History. Simon & Schuster: 2018
Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. Free Press:1991, 2009.
What I Know About Ruby and June Volume 12, Issue 5, Dec 2022-Jan 2023
For this issue I relied heavily on old Omaha newspaper articles. I also looked at census records and yearbooks. Here are a few of my favorite items referenced in the mini-comic:
Truth, Volume 12, Issue 4, November 2022
For this issue I found Nell Irvin Painter’s articles particularly revelatory.
John Ernest. “Misinformation and Fluidity in Print Culture; or, Searching for Sojourner Truth and Others.” Legacy, vol. 33, no. 1, 2016, pp. 22–24. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5250/legacy.33.1.0022. Accessed 10 Oct. 2022.
Goldner, Ellen J. “The Art of Intervention: The Humor of Sojourner Truth and the Antebellum Political Cartoon.” MELUS, vol. 37, no. 4, 2012, pp. 41–67. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42001186. Accessed 10 Oct 2022.
Humez, Jean M. “Reading ‘The Narrative of Sojourner Truth’ as a Collaborative Text.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 1996, pp. 29–52. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3346921. Accessed 10 Oct 2022.
Inniss, Lolita Buckner. While the Water is Stirring: Sojourner Truth as Proto-agonist in the Fight for (Black) Women’s Rights, 100 B. U. L. Rev. 1637 (2020), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/1334.
Painter, Nell Irvin. "8. Difference, Slavery, And Memory: Sojourner Truth In Feminist Abolitionism". The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018, pp. 139-158. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711428-012
Painter, Nell Irvin. “Representing Truth: Sojourner Truth’s Knowing and Becoming Known.” The Journal of American History, vol. 81, no. 2, 1994, pp. 461–92. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081168. Accessed 10 Oct 2022.
Podell, Leslie. https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/