Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936) was the most famous of the American muckraker journalists of the period 1903-1910. His exposés of corruption in government and business helped build support for reform. Lincoln Steffens was born on April 6, 1866, in...

Best known as a leading voice in the journalistic movement known as muckraking, Lincoln Steffens had a career that spanned more than three decades. As a young reporter he exposed corruption and questioned the established order in American political...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, when corruption in city government ran rampant in large American cities, one of the original muckrakers—so named by Theodore Roosevelt for their aggressive journalistic tactics in investigating...

Steffens was born in San Francisco, California, grew up in San Francisco, and studied in France and Germany after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was first exposed to what were known then as "radical" political views. He...

Today is Saturday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2007. There are 324 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 10, 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, went into effect as Minnesota and Nevada ratified it.On...