She was a superstar, the most famous woman in the world. She was a pilot, “it” girl, author, adventurer, fashion designer, ...

In “The Aviator and the Showman,” Laurie Gwen Shapiro recounts Earhart’s drive and the ways her husband, George Putnam, put ...

Where’s Amelia? We’re still looking, though recent events seem to offer the possibility, the possibility I emphasize, that we may find out what happened to aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who, along with ...

Eighty-eight years have passed since Amelia Earhart vanished into legend, her silver Lockheed Electra disappearing somewhere ...

Born in 1897 in Atchison, Kan. — a small town with limited opportunities, especially for women — Amelia Earhart decided ...

In 1937, Amelia Earhart was about to embark on a record-setting flight around the world. In her final moments, she took her last photograph and set off from a Burbank, California airstrip ...

Amelia Earhart took this pennant, given to her by the Society of Women Geographers ("SWG"), on her solo, nonstop flight from Honolulu to Oakland on January 11-12, 1935. With that flight Earhart became ...

Object Details Physical Description Blue and white triangular pennant, with Society of Women Geographers emblem. Summary Amelia Earhart took this pennant, given to her by the Society of Women ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on June 24, according to the Tribune’s archives.

In 1935 Amelia Earhart penned a 'National Geographic' article about her flight from Hawaii to California and forecast that regular transoceanic flight was just on the horizon.