Since 1888, the Hebrew Free Burial Association has ensured that in the city that never sleeps, the poor and huddled masses ...

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, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

A little more than a century ago, in the rapidly developing United States of America, nearly 1,000 workers died on the job every week, on average. Collapsed mines buried them alive. Bursting steam ...

It's very near the 100 year anniversary of an important event you've forgotten the details about--or maybe never even knew happened. But, a century after New York's Triangle Shirtwaist fire on March ...

On a cold windy Saturday in March of 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. In less than a half an hour, it became one of the deadliest industrial disasters in ...

The victims and legacy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire are being remembered with a new memorial. A structure of steel was dedicated Wednesday at the Manhattan building where the tragedy ...

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 ...