108 years ago, 146 workers were killed — some as young as 13 — in a horrific factory fire that help change American economic history. The dead included my Great Aunt Fannie. Fire hoses spray water on ...

2003-10-05T19:58:45-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/18b/1490105489.pngMr. Von Drehle talked about his book, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. He described ...

FILE – In this 1911 file photo provided by the National Archives, labor union members gather to protest and mourn the loss of life in the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York.

Three plaques commemorate the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in Greenwich Village that killed 146 workers in 1911, catalyzing landmark workplace safety laws and transforming the labor movement. But ...

To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime. He wanted to do something about it. By Maria Cramer Responses to an essay about Nazi objects from ...

March 25, 1911 started off like any other Saturday at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. It was the final day of the six-day standard work week in the New York City sweatshops where mentally exhausting ...

It was the worst factory fire in the history of New York City. Late in the afternoon of Saturday, 25 March 1911, fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, located on the 8th, 9th, and 10th ...

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top three floors of what is now known as the Brown Building, located at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street in the Lower East Side. At the time, ...

The memorial was conceived by the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, a nonprofit group of victims’ descendants and labor advocates. (New York Jewish Week) – As Allison and Rebecca Kestenbaum stood ...

Most people who have taken an American History course have learned about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. The historic fire — which happened 105 years ago today — killed 146 garment ...

In a bushfire or campfire, it is the glowing soot that we experience as flames. Flames actually extend well above where we ...