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By Amy Briggs, Executive Editor of HISTORY magazine, co-host of Overheard at National Geographic
It’s no secret that there’s been an Amelia Earhart project cooking in my brain for about as long as I’ve been working at History magazine. I had only been on the job a little while as I listened in a “Stones and Bones” meeting (where we discuss ongoing work in archaeology and history) to Archaeologist-in-Residence Fred Hiebert talking about an upcoming expedition. He needed to fly forensic-sniffing dogs to the South Pacific—in business class—to search for ... Amelia Earhart.
Flying dogs aside, I had just caught a bad case of “Amelia Fever”—whose main symptom was a burning desire to figure out what happened to the aviator over the Pacific in July 1937.
And why not? Amelia Earhart’s disappearance is one of the great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century. National Geographic was trying to solve it with clue-sniffing canines alongside our own “big dogs”—Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard and Hiebert.
Years of following their work and diving deep into just about every Amelia Earhart rabbit hole led to a two-part episode of our podcast, Overheard, devoted to all things Amelia. That includes not only the intriguing disappearance theories (one involving New Jersey), but also how Amelia’s daring adventures shaped American life—in big ways, like trailblazing women astronauts, to the everyday, like the kind of luggage a lady packs for a weekend jaunt. Part One, “The Lady Vanishes” dropped last week, and you can catch, Part Two, “The Lady’s Legacy,” starting tomorrow. It’s a great way to kick off Women’s History Month.
But beware! You might just catch Amelia Fever yourself.
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