Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ549889
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0886-9286
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Nellie Bly: Teaching about a Pennsylvania Traveler.
Mckee, Dr. Saundra
Social Studies Journal, v26 n p17-25 Spr 1997
Considers the career of Nellie Bly, a late 19th-century investigative reporter who gained fame and notoriety for her work. Bly covered wars, labor strikes, and once feigned insanity to write an expose of conditions in a mental institution. Includes a series of interdisciplinary learning activities constructed around Bly's career. (MJP)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women, Females, Feminism, Immigration, Industrialization, Journalism, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans, Mass Media Effects, Newspapers, Political Issues, Public Opinion, Sex Role, Social Action, Social Change, Social History, Social Studies, United States History, Urbanization
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
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