Her story is taught in schools as that of a pioneering woman, and she has made cameo appearances in contemporary Hollywood movies. Even today, in the 2020s, little girls dress like Amelia Earhart ...

Amelia Earhart disappeared 88 years ago, on July 2, 1937. Purdue thinks it knows where. Story by Jillian Ellison, Lafayette Journal & Courier • 18m ...

Amelia Earhart arrives in Derry after her solo transatlantic flight on May 20, 1932, in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Earhart was one of the first women to break barriers in the aviation industry.

Hilary Swank played her in a movie. There have been many books. And there’s Amelia Earhart Elementary School at 1710 E. 93rd St. in the Chicago's Calumet Heights neighborhood.

Whatever the date of the photo shoot, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, left what's now known as Bob Hope Airport in Burbank on May 21, 1937, for a second try, this time heading east.

Amelia Earhart climbs out of her plane at Oakland Airport in Oakland, Calif., after completing her 18 hour, 2,400 mile flight from Honolulu on Jan. 14, 1935. File/AP ...

On the 88th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, Purdue University announced a joint expedition to locate the pioneer's long lost plane.

Using Google Earth, Justin Myers found some anomalies near Nikumaroro Island that he thinks are strikingly similar to Earhart ...

Tony Romeo visited Atchison and the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum two years before and saw Muriel, the only surviving plane of the same model that Earhart took off in almost 90 years ago.

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