Muckraking

Upton Sinclair Publishes "The Jungle" Exposing Meatpacking Industry Horrors

1906-02-26 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Upton Sinclair published “The Jungle” on February 26, 1906, after serializing it in the Socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason from February to November 1905. The 26-year-old writer spent seven weeks in fall 1904 investigating Chicago’s “Packingtown”—a dense complex of …

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Lincoln Steffens Publishes "The Shame of the Cities" Exposing Municipal Corruption

1904-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Lincoln Steffens published “The Shame of the Cities” in 1904, a groundbreaking collection of articles originally written for McClure’s Magazine that exposed systematic corruption in major American cities including St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago, and New …

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Ida Tarbell Begins "The History of the Standard Oil Company" in McClure's Magazine

1902-11-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Ida Tarbell began publishing her groundbreaking 19-part investigative series “The History of the Standard Oil Company” in McClure’s Magazine in November 1902, running through October 1904. Her meticulous research exposed the predatory business practices, illegal rebate schemes, and …

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