Those of you who attended the Children and Teenagers focus workshop may remember our keynote speaker recommending the Cornell University resources on the Triangle Factory Fire. The 100th anniversary of the tragedy is March 25th, 2011, and the website put together by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations is a great place to start looking for ideas and resources.
The website is designed specifically to answer the questions of middle and high school students who are learning about the fire for the first time. It is designed to support students who are writing papers on the subject, but the easily accessible primary sources and the neatly packaged information provides excellent support for any students. The website also features a timeline of the fire and the laws that resulted from it, a model of the 9th floor and an explanation of how its features contributed to the fire, oral history transcripts, many primary source document and an excellent bibliography that contains both fiction and non-fiction sources. I strongly encourage any of you who teach about this incident or about labor reform to spend some time exploring this website.
The Cornell resources can be found here : http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/index.html
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