Essay
The WPA: Antidote to the Great Depression?
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, estimates of the number of jobless workers in the United...
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Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Pilot Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during their attempted circumnavigation of the globe.
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Amelia Earhart to her former flight instructor, Neta Snook, 1929
The first decades of the twentieth century brought a golden age of aviation. During this exciting period, many pioneering women defied traditional female roles to become pilots. Amelia Earhart is the most famous of this group of...