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 ...

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. On March 25, 1911, Fannie Lansner – the 21-year-old sister of my ...

When Starbucks barista Megan DiMotta started organizing a union at her store, she had plenty of present-day grievances to discuss, such as inadequate wages and unsafe working conditions during the ...

NEW YORK — If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques pointing out that it was the site ...

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

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 ...

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 ...