Emily Wishingrad

Emily Wishingrad is a journalist in Washington, D.C. She has written for PBS NewsHour, WETA's Washington Week and the Hearst Television station group. Emily graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in English, where she wrote her senior thesis on early 20th-century film adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Today, Betty Boop is an immediately recognizable cultural icon, appearing on everything from luggage to coffee mugs to chunky heels to board games.

The Evolution of Betty Boop

Film censorship sparked the beloved cartoon character's mid-1930s makeover

SpongeBob on a stick is the closest we come today to the forgotten fad of molded ice cream.

The Lost Art of Molding Ice Cream Into Eagles, Tugboats and Pineapples

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ice cream makers used metal casts to create fanciful desserts

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