| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: March 25, 1911 <http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/>. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation with UNITE! (Union of Needle Trades, Industrial and Textile Employees); ed. by Hope Nisly and Patricia Sione. Last site update April 21, 2000. Reviewed Dec. 20, 2000–Jan. 5, 2001.

According to its introduction, this Web site was created in response to requests for information on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire from secondary school students. It serves this audience with a comprehensive but manageable selection of primary documents from a much larger collection. Thirteen newspaper and magazine articles, eight political cartoons, ten photographs, three oral histories, eleven first-person narratives from Leon Stein's anthology Out of the Sweatshop (1977), several investigation documents, trial testimonies, letters, a song, a radio play, and a recent photo essay on sweatshops past and present are accompanied by key secondary sources (passages from Stein's The Triangle Fire, 1962, frame the narrative, and a recently compiled list of the fire's victims is either error-prone or elevates the usually accepted death toll from 146 to 155) and by additional research and teaching aids (a selected bibliography of juvenile literature, fiction and poetry, audiovisual materials, and additional primary and secondary sources; related Web sites; a text on how to write a high school research paper; and a Web site map that outlines a logical sequence for research). . . .

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