Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Often it’s the unsung heroes of history that leave the greatest impact. Equal parts nameless and ...

Black History Month is an opportunity to recall the people prominent in our past. It’s a way to recognize that their work, their contributions and their very existence are woven tightly into the ...

The oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, who was born in Italy and lived in the United States for six years at the time of her death, notes Cornell University. The two youngest victims, ...

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, ...

In his brilliant, exhaustively researched best seller, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein argues that until the last quarter of the 20th ...

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 ...