- American Experience | The Rockefellers
- The companion web site for the PBS documentary series The Rockefellers.
- CJR, July/Aug - The Life of John D. Rockefeller
- Columbia Journalism Review's review of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow.
- Drake Well Museum
- The Drake Well Museum in Titusville, Pennsylvania, is located on the site where the world's first oil well was drilled in 1859 by Edwin L. Drake.
- Ida Tarbell
- Spartacus Educational, a UK site affiliated with Guardian Unlimited, provides an introduction to Tarbell for middle and high school students.
- John D. Rockefeller and The Standard Oil Company
- Extensive site with resources ranging from the discovery of oil to the Sherman Antitrust Act.
- The Lessons of Ida Tarbell and
- Ida Tarbell: A Reporter's Life
- These two articles were written by Steve Weinberg for The APF Reporter. Weinberg is the editor of the newsletter for Investigative
Reporters and Editors.
- McClure Publishing Company Archives
- The University of Delaware Library Special Collections Department features a biographical note about Sam McClure.
- Magazines in the Twentieth Century
- Charts the changing character of magazines in America during the twentieth century and includes a paragraph about the success of McClure's.
- The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
- Sponsored by The Department of History at New York University, the project was formed in 1985 to edit and publish the papers of Margaret Sanger.
- NYU Department of Journalism - Top 100 Works of Journalism
- Ida Tarbell ranks fifth on this list of the best of modern journalism.
- Ralph Nader Interview
- In a 1991 interview, "consumer crusader" Ralph Nader remembers reading "Ida Tarbell on Standard Oil, or Upton Sinclair on the meat plants...I remember how exciting it was just to read the books."
- Ron Chernow Booknotes Transcript
- A transcript of an interview with Ron Chernow, author of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., from the C-SPAN program Booknotes that aired June 21, 1998.
- Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1911)
- The famous anti-trust court case which was said to have been prompted by Tarbell's book The History of the Standard Oil Company.
- The United States in the Progressive Era: Guide to Resources
- Created for an undergraduate class at Swarthmore, the bibliographies section includes citations for muckraking, antitrust legislation, and women's reform issues.
- Women's history: muckrakers dug up dirt on big-business
- Written for the March 16, 1999 edition of The Christian Science Monitor, this article appeared in the paper's Learning section.
Print Sources
- Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Historic Pennsylvania Leaflet No. 22
- To celebrate the 140th anniversary of her birth on November 5, 1997, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has issued a leaflet about Ida Tarbell—the first woman to be so honored by the state. To order copies of the leaflet, write: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Publications Program, P.O. Box1026,
Harrisburg, PA 17108-1026, or call (717) 783-2618 or (800) 747-7790.
- Barringer, Felicity. "Journalism's Greatest Hits: Two Lists of a Centuries Top Stories." New York Times 1 Mar 1999:C[1,13]
- Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company is placed fifth in a list of the top works of journalism this century. The list was compiled by 36 judges working with the journalism department of New York University.
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