The Lady and the Titan

Before the creation of the Pulitzer Prize, long before Woodward and Bernstein, there was Pennsylvania’s own Ida M. Tarbell (1857-1944). Best known as the muckraking journalist who single-handedly took on the mighty John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), she was among the most feared and admired women of her time. Writing during the Progressive Era, an age of hope and reform running roughly from...
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Letters

Aiming for the Stars A friend recently lent me a copy of your very fine magazine with the article on the astronuclear lab [“Aiming for the Stars: the Forgotten Legacy of the Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory” by Willis L. Shirk Jr., Summer 2011]. What a fascinating history! I bet very few Pennsylvanians know about the state’s involvement in the NERVA [Nuclear Energy for...
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