Thousands of travelers pass through the crossroads of the Midwest region each year, unaware of the deep historical ...

In 1927, the Teapot Dome Scandal rocked the United States government. A corrupt Interior Secretary accepted bribes from oil companies to gain leases to reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. The sitting ...

The Teapot Dome scandal just happened to be the most infamous controversy of Harding’s scant 2 -1/2 years in office. The prize in the corruption scandal was government-owned oil and the private ...

Today is Friday, Oct. 25, the 299th day of 2024. There are 67 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 25, 1929, former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was convicted of accepting ...

Oil was once a word that lubricated the jaws of the nation. Newspapers screamed it, preachers damned it, Mr. Average Citizen swallowed it and was shocked. That was back in 1923 when the Senate was ...

In the 1920s, President Warren G. Harding’s secretary of the interior, Albert Fall, went to prison for a year for accepting a $385,000 bribe from oilman Edward L. Doheny in exchange for leases to ...

Teapot Dome, the Wyoming federal oil reserve that was at the root of a 1920s political scandal, is up for sale, this time to the highest bidder to make sure the deal is legitimate.

When it began, Denby controlled the Navy’s petroleum reserves known as Teapot Dome near Midway, Wyoming, as well as other reserves in Kern County, California.

And here’s where we find Teapot Dome redivivus. West of Prudhoe Bay lies the 23-million-acre reserve, set aside in 1923.

To most people, the Teapot Dome Scandal is a hazy footnote to the Roaring Twenties. Laton McCartney 's detailed examination, though, reveals the complexities of the biggest political scandal in U ...

Attendees celebrate the 100-year anniversary event of the Teapot Dome scandal with cookies and commemorative pins at the kettle-shaped visitors center Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, in Zillah, Wash.