The new Port Columbus airport opened to great fanfare in July 1929 as a key hub on an air-rail transcontinental travel route ...

While Corrigan maintained that he became disoriented in the clouds and that his compass was defective, authorities did not believe his claim that his arrival in Ireland was an accident. So, one ...

The company, owned by General Motors, discovered that a terribly toxic and volatile chemical called tetraethyl lead changed the way gasoline burned in the extreme temperatures and pressures created by ...

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

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

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The Aviator and the Showman,' Laurie Gwen Shapiro's vibrant account of Amelia Earhart's union with a publicity-seeking ...

With this flight, Lindbergh won the $25,000 prize offered by New York hotel owner Raymond Orteig to the first aviator to fly an aircraft directly across the Atlantic between New York and Paris. When ...

Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future by David ...

The "Scopes Monkey Trial"— a term coined in July 1925 by popular Baltimore Sun pundit H.L. Mencken —was about many things, but neither the scientific factuality of evolution or the ...

Famed I.O.O.F. members have included Presidents William McKinley, U.S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and Franklin Roosevelt (as ...

The Aviator and the Showman” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an exciting new book about Amelia Earhart that has already created ...