dolls

How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so.

A new documentary, “Billion Dollar Babies,” shows how a product of Appalachian folk art drew the blueprint for all holiday toy crazes to come.

The author's personal history with the dolls, and an argument for American Girl to make a new doll with a disability.

Class-obsessed consumers found the cold, hard and highly breakable figurines irresistible

How the CIA tried to trick the Soviets with sex dolls (but ultimately got screwed).

The beloved line of fictional characters taught children about American history and encouraged them to realize their potential.

These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.

The uncertain meaning behind a half-black, half-white, two-headed toy.

"Why do you have black dolls?"

The “Barbie” movie glides over the history of dolls as powerful cultural objects.

Before the eagerly-anticipated film hits our screens, we take a look back at the story of the world's most famous doll.

Loved and loathed, the toy stirs fresh controversy at age 64.

On the complex history of “passing” in America.

In the late 1970s, smaller 'Star Wars' action figures took over.

A photo archive shows college coeds vacuuming, preparing baby bottles, diapering babies, and generally practicing at motherhood.

Why the Potato Heads are the latest toys becoming more inclusive.