Amelia Earhart is remembered for many things, but the ins-and-out of her marriage is not one of them, which is just the way she wanted it, according to a letter sent to her husband George P. Putnam.

Up,” F. Scott Fitzgerald declared, people “thought of their old best dreams. Maybe there was a way out by flying, maybe our restless blood could find frontiers in the illimitable air.” Born in 1897 in ...

As the Smithsonian presents the aviator’s restored Vega in Washington, a special replica of the aircraft quietly re-emerges ...

A new biography on Amelia Earhart examines her sometimes tumultuous relationship with her husband, George Putnam. An acclaimed publisher at the time, Putnam helped Earhart write her first book ...

Earhart was politically affiliated with the National Woman’s Party and was an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment. In terms of her marriage, she informed her husband via a letter on ...

Also in the collection is a letter Eleanor Roosevelt wrote saying that she recently had acquired her student pilot permit, but her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, would not grant her ...

The next year an Amelia Earhart Fund for Aeronautical Research was created, which would raise the $80,000 needed to buy the Lockheed Electra 10E two-motor all-metal monoplane that was going to ...

Amelia Earhart’s “prenuptial agreement” with her husband, George Putnam, whom she married in 1931 when she was 32, drew a flurry of attention this week. Los Angeles writer Amanda Hess posted ...