In 1889, a journalist named Nellie Bly, inspired by Jules Verne’s popular novel Around the World in Eighty, decided to turn ...

Today's doodle pays tribute to journalist on her 151st birthday. — -- Trailblazing journalist Nellie Bly is being celebrated in today's Google Doodle on what would have been her 151st birthday.

INDIANA — When Nellie Bly completed her globe-circling journey in 1890, the New York World hailed the intrepid journalist as “the best-known and most widely talked-of young woman on earth today.” But ...

Sit still. Be quiet. Don’t ask questions. These are the mantras of a little girl’s childhood. I learned a lot from my grandmother, like how to make chocolate cake and when a tomato is ripe enough to ...

And with those hastily scribbled words to her editor in Pittsburgh, 23-year-old journalist Nellie Bly was on her way, bound not just for the Big Apple but, in short order, the history books as well.

During the late 1800s, mental health care was a dark and often terrifying world hidden behind the walls of asylums. Few dared to question what went on inside, but Nellie Bly, a courageous journalist, ...

EIGHTY DAYS: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland s History Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman (Ballantine Books) Americans have always loved a good race. From the Kentucky Derby to the ...

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When 19th-century undercover journalist Nellie Bly feigns insanity to investigate the appalling conditions faced by patients in psychiatric asylums, her journey blurs the line between investigation ...