Laurie Gwen Shapiro

The kimono helped launch an unkillable conspiracy theory that the Japanese kidnapped Earhart. The garment hasn’t been seen for decades—until now.

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.