History Professor Paula Treckel talked about The Papers of Ida Tarbell. Ms. Tarbell was an American teacher and author. She was one of the writers of the progressive era, and wrote many notable ...

The first period was known as the Progressive era and occurred during the late-19 th and early-20 th centuries. ... Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Ida B. Wells and Ida Tarbell.

Ida Minerva Tarbell an American writer, investigative ... 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 ...

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Ida Tarbell was one of the few willing to hold him accountable. John D. Rockefeller Sr. epitomized Gilded Age capitalism. ... economic and industrial reform known as the Progressive Era.

Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American teacher, ... work known in modern times in the progressive era as "investigative journalism." ...

Ida Tarbell brought down, single-handedly, the first mega-corporation. Now that corporate morality has captured the White House we need her skills as never before.

In the Progressive Era, the muckraker Ida Tarbell cast John D. Rockefeller as a ruthless monopolist, and Matthew Josephson’s compelling but one-sided Depression-era tome, “The Robber Barons ...

A muckraker who rejected the term as well as an educated woman who opposed women's suffrage, Ida M. Tarbell (1857-1944) may seem like an unlikely role model to inspire the next generation. But ...

Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative ... She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a ...