Women's Studies Film Series
Featuring Lisa and Rich Gensheimer
The Women's Studies Film Series is pleased to announce a special event. Join us on Thursday, October 5th, at 7:00 PM in Quigley's Henderson Auditorium for the screening of a new documentary called Ida Tarbell: All in the Day's Work.
After the screening, filmmakers Lisa and Rich Gensheimer will give a short presentation with time for questions from the audience. Professor of History, Paula Treckel, who is featured in the production, will also be on hand to discuss Tarbell's life and work.
This special event comes on the eve of Ida Tarbell's inauguration into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
The Women's Studies Film Series features outstanding documentaries by, and about, women. For more information see the Film Series web site.
Ida Tarbell: All in the Day's Work provides a historical overview of Tarbell's life in Titusville, Pa., her hometown, and chronicles the challenges and triumphs encountered by Tarbell throughout her career.
The sole woman in Allegheny's class of 1880, Tarbell is considered the "first great American female journalist." Her career is distinguished by her steady refusal to exploit her professional accomplishments for monetary gain or celebrity status. Tarbell was later labeled a "muckraker" for her most famous work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, which revealed the illegal means used by John D. Rockefeller to monopolize the early oil industry. Her relentless pursuit to expose this led to the 1911 Supreme Court decision to break-up the giant oil monopoly. Oil historian Daniel Yergin has called this work "the most important business book ever written."
Independent television producers Lisa and Rich Gensheimer of North East, Pa., used manuscript collections and special collections at Allegheny College's Pelletier Library and the Drake Well Museum in Titusville, secured photographs from the Library of Congress and National Archives and interviewed historians from across the nation, including Allegheny's own Paula Treckel, Professor of History.
Our local PBS station, WQLN, the producer of the program, has generously made the screening possible.
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