We have to look at history truthfully in order to learn from it, and D.W. Gregory’s play “Radium Girls” shines a light on a dark moment in our past. In the 1920s, women who worked at the U.S. Radium ...

Hundreds of women and girls were exposed to a radioactive chemical at an Illinois factory in the 1920s. Years later, they helped change workplace safety standards. In the early 1900s, radium was all ...

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 ...