Born in a log home in Hatch Hollow, northwestern Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell grew up amid the derricks of the Oil Region. Her father, Frank Tarbell, built wooden oil storage ...
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has acquired the 2015 Black List biopic script Ida Tarbell by Mark McDevitt for producer Tom Drumm of Think Tank Management & Production to produce. The Irish writer McDevitt moved ...
Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign really did make a deal with Iran to delay the release of 52 American hostages until after the election, according to this labyrinthine Continue reading » The ...
It is worth remembering that the journalist who pioneered investigative reporting at the turn of the 20 th century grew up wanting to be a scientist. Born in Western Pennsylvania in 1857, Ida Tarbell ...
Ida M. (for Minerva) Tarbell never forgot what John D. Rockefeller did to her father’s dream. She was 14 years old in 1872 when Rockefeller came to Cleveland and offered the owners of local oil ...
Back in 1904, Ida Tarbell published what ultimately was to be seen as the seminal work of the muckrakers, The History of Standard Oil. It appeared first in nineteen installments in McClure’s Magazine, ...
One of the very first investigative journalists, Ida Tarbell went after the “throttling hand” of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller. By 1880, the company owned 90 percent of US oil, its transport ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Paula Treckel introduces Ida Tarbell and what influenced her to take on writing about exposing the Standard Oil Company. Historian Paula ...
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