Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Conspiracy theories about her disappearance do a disservice to the pilot’s remarkable, flawed legacy.

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

After two decades in a filing cabinet and three next to a parking lot in Baltimore, the author returns to New York.

At a time when the US was divided on questions of gender, Alice de Rivera decided that she was fed up with her lousy high school.

Getting to know the New York City street mayors of the turn of the century.

The "celebrity stowaways" of the Jazz Age reached levels of virality similar to today's social media stars.