FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Ida Tarbell
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Lewis Hines
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Jacob Riis
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Upton Sinclair
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1904 Lincoln Steffens, a renowned journalist most famous for his exposés of American municipal corruption, collected a number of articles originally published between 1902 and 1903 under the title The Shame of the Cities .
Detailed explanation-2: -Ida Tarbell (1857-1944), the sole woman who matriculated in 1876 and graduated in Allegheny College’s class of 1880 [see additional note below], was America’s first great woman journalist. She set an example that today’s practitioners would do well to emulate.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ida Tarbell helped pioneer investigative journalism when she wrote a series of magazine articles about John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Trust. She and other jour-nalists, who were called “muckrakers, ” aided Progressive Movement reform efforts.