Smithsonian Magazine

Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

On March 25, 1911, 146 workers perished when a fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. For 90 years, it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. Bettmann/CORBIS On March 25, ...
c-span

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

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 ...
Untapped Cities

A Moving Memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire to Be Unveiled in NYC

The Triangle Fire Memorial has been years in the making. The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition held an international competition to design a memorial in 2013. Out of the nearly 180 submissions sent ...
LAist

100 years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, what’s changed in the garment industry?

A century ago this week, as hundreds of women and some men toiled inside, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York. Within minutes flames engulfed the top floors of the factory, ...
Sun Journal

The Triangle Fire and the fight for $15

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A new book examines the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire — which a contributor worries his father might have started

BOSTON (JTA) – Martin Abramowitz sits in Brookline’s Caffe Nero wearing a “Jews in Baseball” hat. It’s a nod to his position as CEO and founder of the nonprofit Jewish Major Leaguers, which produces ...
The New York Times

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)

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 ...