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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the 113th anniversay of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire, Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su recalled the lives lost as well as the legacy of former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, who ...

Part One. Introduction: The fire that changed America. The garment industry and its workers ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand" ; The Triangle tragedy : grief and outrage ; "The fire that ...