Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids: Mighty Muckrakers from the Golden Age to Today, with 21 Activities
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TIME LINE 1864 Elizabeth Jane Cochran later known as Nellie Bly is born in Cochran’s Mills Pennsylvania on May 5 1865 The Civil War which started in 1861 ends 1870 Elizabeth's father dies unexpectedly 1879 Elizabeth attends Indiana State Normal School in Indiana Pennsylvania Elizabeth's family moves to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 1880 1885 Elizabeth is hired by the Pittsburgh Dispatch and begins using her pen name Nellie Bly 1886 Nellie travels to Mexico for six months as a Pittsburgh Dispatch foreign correspondent to investigate and write about the country 1887 Nellie relocates to New York City and is hired as a reporter by Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World Her first assignment is to go undercover at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island in New York Nellie publishes Ten Days in a Mad House as
a series of articles in the New York World Nellie publishes her first book Ten Days in a Mad House 1888 Nellie Bly publishes her second book Six Months in Mexico 1889 1890 Nellie publishes her third book The Mys tery of Central Park which is a novel Nellie sets out to travel around the world in 75 days to beat the record of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg character in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days Now a celebrity Nellie returns from her trip in 72 days Nellie publishes her fourth book Nellie Bly's Book Around the World in Seventy Two Days Jacob Riis publishes his book How the Other Half Lives Studies Among the Tenements of New York 1892 Ida B Wells publishes her pamphlet Southern Horrors Lynch Law in All Its Phases 1894 Nellie writes about the Pullman strike in Chicago for the New York World 1895 Nellie is offered a job with the Chicago Times Herald but quits within five weeks Nellie marries businessman Robert Liv ingston Seaman
1904 Ida Tarbell publishes her book The History of the Standard Oil Company Robert Seaman dies Nellie becomes owner of Seaman's Iron Clad Manufactur ing Company 1906 Upton Sinclair publishes his novel The Jun gle Teddy Roosevelt first uses the term muck rake in a 1906 dedication speech in Wash ington DC 1913 Nellie reports on the Woman Suffrage Pro cession in Washington DC 1914 Nellie travels to Europe World War I begins Nellie reports on World War I from the trenches as a war correspondent for William Randolph Hearst's newspaper the New York Evening Journal 1918 World War I ends 1919 Nellie returns to the United States and continues to write for the Journal 1922 At 57 years old Nellie Bly dies in New York City on January 27
