Instructional Video
A&E Television

History.com: Oil Industry

9th - 10th
Learn how Spindletop, an East Texas Oil Field, produced 80,000 barrels of black gold a day and changed the country and oil production forever. [2:41]
Instructional Video
National Cable Satellite Corporation

C Span: The History of Spindletop

9th - 10th Standards
Learn about how the famous gusher at Spindletop in 1901 marked the point where the American oil industry got its start. [9:33]