The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

Tuesday marked the 93rd anniversary of when Earhart ... in May 1932, a red Lockheed Vega aircraft suddenly emerged from the clouds above a field on the outskirts of Derry. The plane circled ...

MUCH like the Bermuda Triangle, the Voynich manuscript and Amelia Earhart’s mid-air disappearance, it is one of the world’s ...

LONDON, May 21, 1932 (UP) - Amelia Earhart Putnam today became the first of her sex to make a solo flight of the Atlantic when she put her red monoplane ... and I think the plane is all right." ...

Joan of Arc is accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution.

From the daily newsletter: the aviator’s journey to the Pacific. Plus: Bill McKibben on FEMA’s lack of preparedness; and how ...

She was a trailblazing figure during her time and one of history's greatest mysteries after her disappearance.

The tragic death of Amelia Earhart owed as much to ... while trying to find Howland Island mainly because Earhart’s inept handling of her plane’s radio prevented her from getting a directional ...

It's the coldest of cold cases, and yet 70 years after Amelia Earhart disappeared ... What nobody knew — not Earhart, and not Itasca — was that her plane's radio-reception antenna had been ...

A deep sea exploration company claims they may have spotted the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the American aviation pioneer who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Deep Sea ...

On May 21, 1932, Amelia ... in 1937 Earhart had moved onto a new challenge to circumnavigate the globe. On July 2, accompanied by her Irish American navigator Fred Noonan, Earhart’s plane ...