The oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, who was born in Italy and lived in the United States for six years at the time of her death, notes Cornell University. The two youngest victims, ...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was one of the deadliest fires in U.S. history. The fire resulted in the deaths of ...

A hundred years ago today, at about 4:40 p.m., a warm Saturday afternoon, a fire started in the eighth floor of the Asch Building at 23 Washington Place in New York City and rapidly engulfed the ...

I wonder what my Great Aunt Fannie would think of today’s American workplace, with a percolating revival of its labor movement. Jonathan Lansner’s great aunt Fannie died in the the Triangle Fire in ...

On March 25, 1911, my Great Aunt Fannie went to work in a high-rise garment factory in New York City. The workday ended with Fannie Lansner jumping from a ninth-floor window to avoid the scorching ...

History remembers the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory fire in New York City as one of the most infamous American industrial incidents. A fire broke out in the factory on March 25, 1911, and ...

March is always a month of anticipation and change. We move the clocks forward, celebrate meteorological spring and, if we’re lucky, see the first daffodils and hyacinths peek up from the ground. This ...

The N&O Summer Desk is a pop-up initiative to help navigate the season. Whether you’re heading to the beach, mountains or backyard, the Summer Desk is here to guide you. Share your story ideas with us ...

Students will retell the 1911 fire through eyewitness accounts and courtroom testimony, performing locally Tuesday, Jan. 20, ...