Hidden in plain sight in the Wright-Dunbar neighborhood along West Third Street are larger-than-life-sized photographs on display at historic sites once occupied by the Wright brothers. PHOTO ...

McCullough, who belongs to what might be called the triumphalist school of American history, gives Wilbur and Orville Wright heroic treatment.

The last surviving Wright brothers family member to have known Orville Wright has died, according to her family. Marianne Miller Hudec, 79, a Dayton native, died March 5 of heart failure at her ...

This unshakeable foundation of earnest midwestern pragmatism suffuses David McCullough’s new portrait of aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright. “The Wright Brothers” delivers a tidy ...

American aviation pioneers, the Wright brothers, in a family portrait, circa 1903. Orville is fourth from left; Wilbur stands next to him, fifth from left. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...

Lane was born in 1953, five years after Orville died. She listened to the family stories, especially those of her great-aunt Ivonette Wright Miller, who knew the brothers well and in 1911 was one ...

The Wright brothers’ feat was “under the control of the pilot. It was a powered flight,” Jakab says. It took off and landed at the same height, which shows that it was advanced enough to not ...

The Dayton Fire Department in Ohio said that it was still investigating what caused the fire at the historic site, where the Wright brothers first manufactured planes starting in 1910.