The Girls of Atomic City fills a startling gap: it explains how ordinary young women—secretaries, operators, janitors—became the backbone of the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, turning anonymous labor into … Read more
We all know the stock market crashed in 1929, plunging the world into the Great Depression. But what we don’t know is the gripping, human drama of the flawed men … Read more
Here’s the hard truth: The Birth of a Nation (1915) is both the movie that turbocharged modern cinematic storytelling and a work of racist propaganda that helped popularize the Ku … Read more
What happens when a miracle cure becomes a slow, agonizing poison? The Radium Girls unearths the forgotten tragedy of the young women who, painting watch dials with glowing radium paint, … Read more