The 1970s oil crisis hit everyone with the gravity of an empty-tank warning light. It ended up stalling the post-war promises of endless highways as well as cheap gasoline. Literally overnight ...

Global crude oil prices are now lower than they were before Israel attacked Iran earlier this month. A price spike did occur, but it was short-lived — unlike oil crises of the past.

In 1973, the world experienced a major turning point in automotive history. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided to tighten the flow of oil to the United States ...

An organization that honored an AP photojournalist with its “photo of the year” in 1973 for a picture of a girl running from a napalm attack in the Vietnam War says it has “suspended its ...

However, the dawn of the oil crisis in the 1970s dealt a devastating blow to the muscle car era. In October 1973, OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) imposed an oil embargo, ...

Fifty years later, Vietnam’s degraded ecosystems and dioxin-contaminated soils and waters still reflect the long-term ecological consequences of the war.

The second-longest war in U.S. history began with dreams of quick victory and ended in catastrophe.

On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon. The human costs of the conflict, which lasted around 20 years, were high for all those involved.

These 10 films, assembled to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, range from indelible anti-war classics to Vietnamese portraits of resistance.

Chuck Searcy never thought that he would be living in Communist Vietnam and helping its people fight a different war against unexploded mines.