All posts tagged "Pittsburgh"
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2.7KBusiness and LaborIda Tarbell, Investigative Journalist, Takes Down John D. Rockefeller
In the 1930s, Ida Tarbell sat down at her mahogany desk in the sunny library of her Easton, Conn., farmhouse. She wrote...
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3.9KBusiness and LaborCrazy Henry Baldwin, the Mentally Ill Supreme Court Justice
In the history of the United States, only 120 people have served on the Supreme Court. Some suffered from mental illness. Henry...
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4.5KMassachusettsLydia Bacon Goes to the Western Wilderness (of Pittsburgh)
Boston native Lydia Bacon decided to join Army Lt. Josiah Bacon — her brand-new husband — in the Pittsburgh wilderness in 1811....
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