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She also is an icon for many Minnesota girls who grew up with the American Girl line of dolls in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, along with its catalogs and books describing a year in the life of each ...
The American Girl dolls had their issues. For starters, they were exorbitantly priced (buying just one doll with the accompanying accessories, books, and wardrobes could cost hundreds of dollars).
And they're talking about the American Girl doll Molly McIntire, one of the original 18-inch dolls released by Pleasant Company. She is a 9-year-old World War II patriot whose father is away at war.
Allison Horrocks on what American Girl dolls can teach us about history On Monday night, the historian spoke about how one doll taught so many children about the American Revolution. Horrocks’ talk ...
And not the American Girl dolls as I knew them in the ’90s and early 2000s, wholesome avatars of our country’s past — Felicity Merriman, for instance, the colonial-era tomboy who refused to ...
The release of two "historical" American Girl dolls from the 1990s — dolls named Isabel and Nicki Hoffman — is making some millennial women feel quite old.
Felicity Merriman was the fourth doll released in the American Girl line, and came out in the fall of 1991. She represented Colonial America during the early Revolutionary War period.
American Girl Doll Memes Have Been Everywhere Lately—and Thank ... Part of 11-year-old colonialist Felicity Merriman’s story was that she grew up in the pre-Revolutionary War era with ...
Discover 1980s collectibles worth thousands, from rare video games and action figures to American Girl dolls and VHS tapes.
People sometimes joke that American Girl doll accounts like Hellicity Merriman break the news to them — the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the attempted assassination of former president Donald ...
The American Girl doll was invented in the nineteen-eighties by an enterprising former grade-school teacher and news anchor in her mid-forties named Pleasant Rowland, during a visit to Colonial ...