In our YouTube series 'Behind the Seams,' the brand's Senior Historical Researcher explains how the dolls' fashion reflects ...

From Buster Brown-inspired school outfits to the classic hair bow, Samantha Parkington’s 1904 New York world is full of rich detail. This video explains how American Girl uses Edwardian-era catalogs ...

American Girl began 40 years ago in Madison and then Middleton with dolls and books about girls living in different historical eras. Founder Pleasant Rowland insisted American Girls materials be ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. It all started when founder Pleasant Rowland took a trip to the gift shop at Colonial Williamsburg Lizz Schumer is the Senior Editor, ...

Hill House Home is partnering with American Girl for a collaboration in time for Mother’s Day. Blending American Girl’s storytelling heritage with Hill House Home’s romantic aesthetic, the collection ...

For millions of viewers growing up in the late 1960s, the classic TV sitcom Family Affair offered something comforting and familiar—a neatly ordered world where even life’s biggest disruptions could ...

Most of us are overwhelmed by the constant negativity of the modern world. Yet, unlike the meaningless chaos of the daily ...

Every Wednesday, at exactly 2:15 P.M., the electronic bell at San Francisco’s A. P. Giannini Middle School sounds with a dull, droning buzz, and hundreds of students stream from the building. They ...

The set features three book-inspired compacts representing fan-favorite characters Samantha, Kirsten and Josefina American Girl American Girl is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a fun collab ...

Here's a timeline of key events in American Girl history: 1985: Pleasant Rowland starts Pleasant Company in a converted Madison warehouse, with a plan to make dolls and related books placing girls in ...