Each American Girl character had a series of books, and corresponding dolls, that explored her story in a particular time ...

Former Boston academics Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith explore American Girl’s lingering impact on history, ...

American Girl Growing up, Sydney Rose Paulsen often viewed the world through a specific lens: namely, American Girl dolls and books ... a historic automobile or horse-drawn carriage, or ...

But a clip on social media of one of its anchors, Rob Finnerty, horrified because he couldn’t find a white American Girl doll for his daughter in the store at Rockefeller Center, threw me. “ ...

So I read all of the American Girl doll books ... are driven by their ethnicities. Where white characters have the freedom to be the “weird horse girl” or the daring cowboy, characters ...

Catherine Langston writes about rushing out to buy Marie-Grace and Cécile dolls from the popular American Girls collection ... this friendship between the white girl and the Creole girl must ...

Harriet Jacobs, who escaped enslavement to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), created these three dolls for the children of writer Nathaniel Parker Willis around 1850-60.

Pinafores, bonnets, and candelabra crowns: For early American ... doll and girl outfits, plus the product line and online game for Saige, the latest Girl of the Year. Saige is white and upper ...

Growing up, I loved the American Girl dolls and their accompanying books ... then you might enjoy The Tin Horse, a multi-generational epic with plenty of high drama, disappearing twins, Jewish ...

American Girl dolls were developed in 1986 by the Pleasant Company, and they've been a prominent part of many children's lives since. The books are very educational (I learned most of my history ...

What she makes: When Romero started making her “First American Girl” series in 2015, she said, she asked herself, “How can I create these dolls that ... A black-and-white film photography ...

American Girl ... dolls since 1986. Or, at least, it’s been teaching certain girls about their history. For all of the inspiring, fascinating looks into what life was like for white girls ...