The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Sixteen Minutes | 3
Two years after the labor strikes that shook the city of New York, the workers of Triangle factory returned to better wages and lower hours. But when a fire broke out near closing time on a Saturday a...
6 Nov 201937min
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Revolt of the Girls | 2
Inspired by the labor strikes at Triangle and other factories in Lower Manhattan, more than 30,000 garment workers took to the streets of New York in protest in late 1909. For the first time, an indus...
30 Okt 201939min
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Wildcat | 1
On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Manhattan, claiming the lives of 146 garment workers — mostly women and girls. It was one of the deadliest workplace disasters...
23 Okt 201939min
Dutch Manhattan - The Dutch Influence Today | 7
New York City was founded on the Dutch principles of tolerance and capitalism, both of which were new ideas at the time. But much of the city's early history was lost until the 1970s, when a renewed i...
16 Okt 201950min
Dutch Manhattan - New York | 6
In the years after Adrian Van der Donck won a municipal charter for New Amsterdam, and under Peter Stuyvesant's stern but capable rule, the city flourished. Even English residents of New England and V...
9 Okt 201937min
Dutch Manhattan - The One-Legged Soldier | 5
Peter Stuyvesant was fresh from losing a leg in battle against the Spanish when he arrived in Manhattan in 1647. He was a tough soldier who was ready to take charge of the unruly population of New Ams...
2 Okt 201936min
Dutch Manhattan - The Sheriff Comes to Town | 4
Just as it was becoming a New World success story, disaster came to New Amsterdam. Willem Kieft, the Dutch leader appointed by the West India Trading Company, declared war on local tribes, sending sol...
25 Sep 201937min
Dutch Manhattan - Pirates and Prostitutes | 3
New Amsterdam was a desperate place. For the first decade of its existence, the Dutch city on the tip of Manhattan Island served as a haven for pirates, prostitutes and smugglers. That was because the...
18 Sep 201935min
