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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Americans tend to be fascinated by what’s new and to be indifferent to the past, except when they can use “tradition” to reinforce current prejudices and power arrangements. This has had an ...

Fire is a fundamental part of life on Earth. But what is it really? Science tells us it isn't matter at all, but a chemical ...

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 ...

To get their mind wrapped around negligence, Curt Varone points firefighters and officers in the direction of something with which they already are familiar: the fire triangle and the fire tetrahedron ...