American Experience: Progressivism, Journalism, & Reform: Working & Living Conditions
Resources on investigative journalists of the era and their impact
Jacob Riis. From the Park City Museum
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair & the meatpacking industry
- Upton Sinclair
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- Excerpt from The Jungle [1906]
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How "The Jungle" Changed American Food (2:52)
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Samuel Hopkins Adams exposes unsafe medicines
- Samuel Hopkins Adams
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- "The Great American Fraud" Collier's, (October 7, 1905)
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Chamber of Horrors (12:29)
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Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis exposes living conditions in the slums
- Riis, Jacob (1848–1914)
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- Jacob Riis: Revealing “How the Other Half Lives”
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“Jacob Riis: Revealing 'How the Other Half Lives'" (5:53)
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