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    The Ida Tarbell House is a historic house at 320 Valley Road in Easton, Connecticut. A simple farmhouse dubbed "Twin Oaks", it was the home of muckraking...
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    Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the...
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    Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement...
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    Historic Places include Aspetuck Historic District, Ida Tarbell House, and Bradley-Hubbell House. The annual Easton Fireman's Carnival is an event run...
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    Ida Tarbell House...
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  • investment houses along Wall Street. In 1889, The Wall Street Journal began publishing. While the famous muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell did not consider...
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    exposées of wrongdoing in business and politics, such as those written by Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens. The magazine ran fiction and...
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  • Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (category Random House books)
    practices incurred scrutiny, Chernow wrote. Muckrakers in the press—notably, Ida Tarbell—published scathing, multi-part exposés about the oil trust's underhanded...
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    muckraking journalism, although the muckrakers would get their label later. Ida M. Tarbell ("The History of Standard Oil"), Lincoln Steffens ("The Shame of the...
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    in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ida Tarbell House (Easton, Connecticut) The home of educator, author and muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell (1857-1944). Kimberly...
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    houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, designed by the "Harvard Five" architects, including: Landis Gores House, the Richard and Geraldine Hodgson House,...
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    South Improvement Company Henry H. Rogers Standard Oil Pratt Institute Ida M. Tarbell Gray, Christopher (2010-11-18). "When the Pratts, an Old Brooklyn Family...
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    scholarship fund that exceeds one million dollars.[citation needed] Ida Tarbell graduated from Titusville High School in 1896 and is one of its most...
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  • against Jersey came about in part as a consequence of the reporting of Ida Tarbell, who wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company. The net value of...
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    those notes. Initially, Whitney's version was given some credibility. Ida Tarbell sought out Joseph Medill, who was present at the Lost Speech, and he...
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    four years the city was nearly deserted. Tarbell moved to Titusville in 1870. His daughter, Ida Minerva Tarbell, grew up amidst the sounds and smells of...
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    "Lincoln Remembered". University of Illinois. Retrieved 2 April 2013. Tarbell, Ida M; Davis, John McCan (1896). The early life of Abraham Lincoln. New York:...
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    about the same time as Henry and Abbie Rogers was a little girl named Ida M. Tarbell, whose father was an independent producer whose small business was ruined...
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    media related to Madame Roland. Ida M. Tarbell, Madame Roland: A Biographical Study. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1896. Ida Ashworth Taylor, Life of Madame...
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    practices came under criticism, particularly in the writings of author Ida Tarbell. The Supreme Court ruled in 1911 that Standard Oil must be dismantled...
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  • Eagle. December 1876. "Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Anti-lynching and the White House". WHHA (en-US). Retrieved 15 April 2024. "Ida Tarbell: The Woman Who Took...
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    ISBN 193159905X. Tarbell, Ida M. (1896). The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln (Internet Archive full text). New York: S. S. McClure Ltd. p. 223. Ida Minerva Tarbell (1900)...
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    Nancy Pelosi (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California)
    American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member...
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    magazine, where he became part of a celebrated muckraking trio with Ida Tarbell and Ray Stannard Baker. He specialized in investigating government and...
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    installed. The room was decorated with paintings by Childe Hassam, Edmund C. Tarbell, and Guy C. Wiggins. The pale green silk wall covering was removed during...
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    Lincoln Steffens exposed political corruption in many large cities; Ida Tarbell is famed for her criticisms of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company...
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    in Cosmopolitan (4–11/1932) A House Divided (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935); The House of Earth trilogy #3 The House of Earth (trilogy) (New York:...
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    said in interviews that 'my name had been chosen from the Bible. My Aunt Ida had chosen the name, but nobody really knew how to spell it, so it went down...
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    in World War II. 1946. Tarbell, Ida M. All in a Day's Work: An Autobiography.. New York: The MacMillan Co., 1939. Tarbell, Ida M., and David Mark Chalmers...
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    Documentary History. University of Illinois Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780252037078. Tarbell, Ida Minerva (1920) [1st pub. 1895]. The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Vol. 4....
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