The Hamlet Fire: Bryant Simon in conversation with Elizabeth Gillespie McRae | Malaprop's Presents
Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past in the United States. However, as award-winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions.
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Bryant Simon is a professor of history at Temple University.
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, an associate of history professor at Western Carolina University and the author of Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, winner of the OAH’s 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the SHA’s Frank and Harriet Owsley Award.
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