Through the first half of the 20th century in America, radium, a substance mined from the ground, was a source of fascination — it was used for everything from making watch dials glow in the … ...

“The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women” by Kate Moore; Sourcebooks (479 pages, $26.99) The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and ...

A Senate resolution would recognize the Radium Girls and "their determination to seek justice in ... N.J.’s ‘Radium Girls’ have been subject of book, play and movie. Now U.S. Senate may ...

BOOKS | REVIEWS: The Radium Girls. May 21, 2017 at 12:09 a.m. | Updated May 21, 2017 at 12:06 a.m. by The Seattle Times "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women" by Kate Moore.

The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and clock faces ...

In his book “Marking Time: The Radium Girls of Ottawa,” Heinz Dietrich Suppan, a history professor at Joliet Junior College, shares the story of female factory workers who used radium-laced ...

In November, I attended North High School’s production of “Radium Girls.” I found the story compelling and decided to read the book the play is based on — “The Radium Girls” by Kate Moore.

A few years ago, Moore directed the play These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich in London. It's based on four American women who worked at the Radium Dial watch factory in Illinois in the 1920s ...

The "Radium Girls" were female workers who painted watch dials and airplane instruments with radium ... N.J.’s ‘Radium Girls,’ subject of book, play and movie, honored by U.S. Senate ...