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Ida Tarbell (born November 5, 1857, Erie county, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 6, 1944, Bridgeport, Connecticut) was an American journalist, lecturer, and chronicler of American industry best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904). She was among a group of so-called muckrakers who helped establish the field of ...
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Ida Tarbell. Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative journalism. [ 1 ]
Mar 19, 2021 · Ida M. Tarbell’s name would become synonymous with the term muckraker after publication of her 19-part expose of the business practices of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company that had destroyed her father’s oil business, as well as many other small oil related companies in Pennsylvania’s oil region in the 1870s.
Jul 17, 2023 · An investigative journalist, Ida Tarbell's 19-part exposé of Standard Oil in McClure's magazine established her as one of the top muckrakers of 20th-century America. A muckraker journalist, Ida Tarbell published a 19 part exposé of Standard Oil between 1902 and 1904 that helped lead to the breaking up of the company.
Jan 6, 2022 · Ida Tarbell was one of the most famous muckrakers. Born in 1857 in a log cabin in Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania, Tarbell’s first dream was to be a scientist. She studied biology at Allegheny College but science as a professional field was largely closed to women in the late 19th century.
Jul 5, 2012 · Ida M. Tarbell, c. 1904. Photo: Wikipedia. At the age of 14, Ida Tarbell witnessed the Cleveland Massacre, in which dozens of small oil producers in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, including her ...
Kathleen Brady is the author of Lucille, The Life of Lucille Ball, and Ida Tarbell: Portrait of a Muckraker, for which she was named a Fellow of the Society of American Historians. She is a past ...
