On Jan. 11, 1935, the aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip to Oakland, Calif., from Honolulu that she would complete the next day, becoming the first person to fly to the United States mainland ...

Amelia Earhart stands June 14, 1928 in front of her bi-plane called "Friendship" in Newfoundland. Earhart (1898 - 1937) disappeared without trace over the Pacific Ocean in her attempt to fly ...

Putnam asked Bradford Washburn, a skilled explorer, mapper, and pilot, to accompany Earhart. (When Putnam was at his family’s publishing house, he’d worked with a teen-age Washburn as one of ...

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic as a passenger, in 1928, and followed this by a solo flight in 1932. Historic icon: Amelia Earhart 379570 18: Portrait of Amelia Earhart ...

It's the coldest of cold cases, and yet 70 years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, clues are still turning up. ... His role as an AP reporter on the Earhart story was part of family history.

Exclusive: Inside the search for Amelia Earhart’s airplane. Many attempts have been made to discover the famed aviator's fate, but never with the technological tools at Robert Ballard's disposal.

In the years before Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, pressure from her husband, ... “We want to have life here,” Joe Charap, a horticulturist who resides on the property with his family, said.

The newest addition to the family, born Sept. 18, is named Amelia Earhart Mason. The history When Cory, 37, and Rebecca, 34, announced they named their first born after Eleanor Roosevelt, Cory's ...

The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon Laurie Gwen Shapiro. Viking, $35 (512p) ISBN 978-0-593-29590-8 ...