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 ...

It's a story that ought to thrill any investigative reporter: Bright young Ida Tarbell grew up in the oil fields of western Pennsylvania, the daughter of an independent contractor. There she witnessed ...

Kathleen Brady, noted biographer of Lucille Ball and Ida Tarbell was featured as part of the Turner Winter Series at the Robert H. Jackson Center last week. Kathleen Brady, an author and biographer, ...

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 ...

If ever there was a true David and Goliath story in American business, this was it. A scrappy investigative reporter, a woman no less, took aim at John D. Rockefeller, the nation’s richest and one of ...

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 ...