At the age of 14, Ida Tarbell witnessed the Cleveland Massacre, in which dozens of small oil producers in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, including her father, were faced with a daunting choice ...

Ida Minerva Tarbell an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer.

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 ...

Tarbell’s private reflections, about gender among other things, do emerge from time to time. Early on, she recognized the predicament of women. At 14, Ida knelt and prayed to God that she would ...

Investigative journalist Ida Tarbell was born on November 5, 1857. She is best remembered for her 19-part McClure’s Magazine series, that began in 1902, about corruption at the Standard Oil Company.

This was the case when Ida Tarbell wrote a book in 1904, with the title, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," which was listed as number 5 in a 1999 list by New York University as being the ...

Her name was Ida Tarbell. Tarbell became a journalist. And biographer Kathleen Brady explains that around 1900, Tarbell was hanging out with her editor, thinking about story ideas. KATHLEEN BRADY ...

Amazon has acquired movie rights to Mark McDevitt’s “Ida Tarbell,” which was named to the 2015 Black List, and set it up with Tom Drumm of Think Tank Management & Production. Think Tank ...

Ida Tarbell took journalism in an entirely new direction, one that made business have to stand up and take notice. The echoes of her reporting remain with us. Steve Weinberg's new book ...

This post originally ran on Nov. 5. Investigative journalist Ida Tarbell was born on November 5, 1857. She is best remembered for her 19-part McClure’s Magazine series, that began in 1902 ...