The space history department. You can join the conversation, theyll take your phone calls and emails and tweets. The 40th anniversary of the smithsonian air and space museum, live in evening beginning at 6 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv. Each week American History tvs american artifacts takes viewers behind the scenes, we visited the National Portrait gally comment rating the Amelia Earhart disappearance, she was called lady lindy and the mystery surrounding her loss continues to fascinate americans today. Welcome to the National Portrait gallery. Im the curator of photographs here at the gallery. When visitors come to the portrait gallery and showing them around the exhibition, i often ask them, what do you know about Amelia Earhart . We know she was the first woman to fly across the atlantic and we also know that she disappeared tragically in 1937. Thats what most visitors understand about Amelia Earhart. What this exhibition hopes to do is to reveal more of the complexity o