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Ida Tarbell

A narrative biography of Ida Tarbell, the journalist from Pennsylvania’s oil region whose documented history of Standard Oil helped break the most powerful monopoly on earth — and …

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Activism4 Art5 Business3 Conservation1 Crime1 Culture9 Diplomacy1 Discovery2 Economics1 Empire1 Environment1 Historical memory15 History1 Independence movements1 Literature4 Media3 Medicine1 Military leadership2 Philosophy1 Political leadership9 Political violence1 Politics3 Power1 Recovery1 Reform1 Revolution1 Science9 Slavery2 Sports1 Technology1 War4

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19th-century abolition activism african-diaspora african-literature algeria american-culture american-history american-revolution anti-colonialism art-history astronomy athletics aviation british-history camille-claudel carolingian-renaissance chemistry civil-rights civil-war

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Alan Turing

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Jules Verne

Edward Dwight

Antoine Lavoisier