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The Birth
Born on April 6,
1866 in San Fransico, California -
Graduating from Berkley and Starts to Study in Europe
In 1889 Lincoln Steffens graduated from the University of California at Berkley, right after that he went to study at universities in Germany with Wilhelm Wundt and with Jean-Martin Charcot in France. -
Returns to the United States
He later returned to the United States in 1892 to the state of New York. Steffens became the reporter for the New York Evening Post learning how to make and investigate articles on economic conditions, local politics, and culture which he was facinated in. He had soon become the newspaper's first police reporter. -
Steffens Becomes a Muckraker
In 1902 Lincoln Steffens became apart of a movement where his generation was attempting to promote change, seek understanding, and give people the need for a sense of reform. And people had expressed this to the public with journalism, these people who showed others what was wrong with society were called muckrakers which Steffens had earned the title. -
Famous Book Published called The Shame of the Cities
Lincoln Steffens had a book called The Shame of the Cities published in 1904 which became of of his most popular reads that was a muckracking work of art that talked about and exposed the nation's problems, corporation, and reform at the time but also it was also a collection of articles that he wrote while at McClure's Magazine. -
Traveled to observe Revolutions
He traveled to Mexico in 1914 to observe the Revolution, changing his ways from reform to revolution, which made him lose most of his audience. Lincoln Steffens went on to journey to Russia in 1917 in order to inspect and access their way of the revolution, but even with his efforts few Americans were interested in the topic. -
Joseph Lincoln Steffens' Autobiography
He traveled to Mexico in 1914 to observe the Revolution, changing his ways from reform to revolution, which made him lose most of his audience. Lincoln Steffens went on to journey to Russia in 1917 in order to inspect and access their way of the revolution, but even with his efforts few Americans were interested in the topic. -
Death
Lincoln Steffens died on
August 9th of 1936 in Carmel, California.
