The monograph “Triangle The Fire That Changed America” by David Von Drehle is a brief history on the The Triangle Waist Company that burned down in March 25, 1911 claiming many lives of The Triangle Waist Company. Drehle profession lays in journalism where he studied in the University of Oxford and also at the University of Denver where he got a masters in Literature as a Marshall Scholar. With the fire at The Triangle Waist Company issues arose that the fire was indeed a crucial moment in American history that forced fundamental reforms from the political machinery of New York and the whole nation. The importance of the aftermath of the fire throughout the Progressive movement was that it finally allowed change to happen in
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The primary source that he used are photographs that were taken throughout that time period, that helped visualize the time of the Triangle Waist Company (DREHLE 2003 P. 181). A secondary source that he used was a testimony from Harris and Blank “Crucial to the writing of the chapters two, five, six, and nine, was the transcribed testimony from the trial of People of the state of New York Isaac Harris and Max Blank” ( DREHLE 2003 P. 316). The specific sources that Drehle chose throughout the monograph are indeed appropriate due to the fact that it added a better understanding that helped the reader understand that the Triangle Waist Company fire was definitely a game changer in American history. Thus creating many different kinds of monographs. A monograph that is closely related to the “Triangle The Fire That Changed America” by David Von Drehle is the monograph “The Triangle Fire” by Leon Stein. In Stein’s monograph “The Triangle Fire” it elaborates on how the Triangle Waist Company fire was devastating and also how it relates to the right of workers “A work of history relevant for all those who continue the fight for workers' rights and safety” (STEIN 2010). This is related to the “Triangle The Fire That Changed America” due to the evidence about the workers in the Triangle Waist Company “Get the manufacturer's to give you what you
The primary source that he used are photographs that were taken throughout that time period, that helped visualize the time of the Triangle Waist Company (DREHLE 2003 P. 181). A secondary source that he used was a testimony from Harris and Blank “Crucial to the writing of the chapters two, five, six, and nine, was the transcribed testimony from the trial of People of the state of New York Isaac Harris and Max Blank” ( DREHLE 2003 P. 316). The specific sources that Drehle chose throughout the monograph are indeed appropriate due to the fact that it added a better understanding that helped the reader understand that the Triangle Waist Company fire was definitely a game changer in American history. Thus creating many different kinds of monographs. A monograph that is closely related to the “Triangle The Fire That Changed America” by David Von Drehle is the monograph “The Triangle Fire” by Leon Stein. In Stein’s monograph “The Triangle Fire” it elaborates on how the Triangle Waist Company fire was devastating and also how it relates to the right of workers “A work of history relevant for all those who continue the fight for workers' rights and safety” (STEIN 2010). This is related to the “Triangle The Fire That Changed America” due to the evidence about the workers in the Triangle Waist Company “Get the manufacturer's to give you what you