Glenbard West Theatre will present its spring drama, “Radium Girls” on April 16-18. The production is based on the true story of the female workers of the U.S. Radium Corp. in the 1920s. When ...

A new memorial and school curriculum are bringing the forgotten history of the Radium Girls back to the city where it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the 1920s, young women worked in an Ottawa, Illinois, factory painting radioactive glow-in-the-dark numbers onto watches. They ...

Various city officials and a group of students attend a memorial dedication in Orange, NJ honoring the Radium Girls, five ...

It may be 2017, but working women are still facing many of the same issues that have been plaguing them for decades: sexism, unequal pay, misogyny, sexual harassment, and more. And while these issues ...

It’s taken them nearly a century, but "Radium Girls” will have their story told on the big screen. A group of young women who were pioneers in the fight for workplace safety and public health are at ...

As a little girl growing up in post-World War I Germany, Joe Dunthorne’s grandmother was among the many who brushed their teeth with irradiated toothpaste. Doramad, his grandmother’s family brand of ...

Salesmen (and the press) learned that tonics labeled ”radium,” once the most expensive substance on Earth, flew off the shelves. Meanwhile, scientists scrambled to learn what the radioactive material ...

Scientific discovery can be achingly slow, but it was moving swiftly in the 1890s. X-rays had been discovered in Germany just a few days before Christmas in 1895. Several months later, while ...

Mrs. Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California’s Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with “a can of beans, a loaf of ...