American Girl dolls were — and continue to be — a staple of countless ... These intertwined colleges could only go to the most iconic pair of best friends, Cécile Rey and Marie-Grace Gardner. The ...

Kirsten is an American Girl doll. 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 ...

Aurora Fenzl brought a Kirsten doll to a program about American Girl dolls Saturday at the Minnesota History Center. (Greta Kaul/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Kirsten Larson moved to Minnesota in 1854 at age 9 when her family left Sweden. That year, she lost a friend to cholera, made ...

Plenty of celebrities opt to go by stage names in Hollywood. From Natalie Hershlag (Portman) to Olivia Cockburn (Wilde) there ...

It’s official: The newest American Girl doll is 9-year-old Rebecca Rubin, a Jewish-American girl who lives with her family on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1914. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA ...

Kirsten Larson moved to Minnesota in 1854 at age 9 when her family left Sweden. That year, she lost a friend to cholera, made friends with a Dakota girl, stole animal pelts from a dead fur trapper, ...

Chris grew up loving dolls — playing and collecting Disney dolls and American Girl dolls with his sister. At aged 16 he spotted a doll in an antique store in Massachusetts and felt drawn to her.

Cecile Richards stepped down as head of Planned Parenthood seven years ago, but for many people she has remained the face of the abortion-rights movement. Over a 12-year span, Richards ...

Cecile Marie (Gariepy) Raths was born in Yuma, Arizona on March 21, 1947 when Yuma was a sleepy little town. She experienced a blessed childhood; her mother was a wonderful housewife, and her ...

The initial inspiration for Young-hee came from a girl of the same name on the cover of old primary school textbooks in South Korea, though the killer doll was initially conceived as genderless ...