Hi Mary, hi Allison. Does the name Molly McIntyre mean anything to you?

Oh, you mean the World War II Shiro who fought the good fight at home while looking fly

in a beret and then alternately wearing roller skates and O'Hula outfit?

That's the one.

Of course, I'm talking about Molly,

the American girl who, for many women of a certain age,

inspired a lifelong log of history and Argyll sweaters.

If you read and love the books, dolls, movies, magazine, or anything else in the American

Girl universe, join us as we relive the American Girl series book by book in a new podcast called American

Girls.

Each episode we'll talk about one book in the series and think about the historical world

it imagines and how we make sense of it in the world we find ourselves in today.

We're two 30-something historians and friends who grew up with the first generation of dolls.

This is our first revisit of the books which

may inspire questions that would not have occurred to our nine-year-old

selves. Such as, what do American girls and Cheryl Sandberg have in common?

Could Samantha Hackett as a social media influencer?

And what could Felicity learn from Janet Jackson?

So come along as we delve into the wide and wild world of

AG fandom. Look for our podcast American Girls coming soon wherever you find

your podcast.