A miracle cream was launched in Paris in 1933. Billed as a “scientific beauty product,” it promised to improve circulation, firm muscle tissue, reduce fat and smooth wrinkles. It was part of a line of ...

Not long ago, curator Natalie Luvera began to worry about the strangest item in the National Atomic Testing Museum's collection of artifacts — a tiny 1920s device designed to restore lost manhood by ...

When the Welsh novelist Joe Dunthorne began reading his German-Jewish great-grandfather Siegfried Merzbacher’s memoir, he had been hoping to discover the story of his late grandmother’s (Siegfried’s ...