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 ...

American Girl dolls and books, which have connected girls to U.S. history for 40 years, were directly inspired by the era that gave birth to this nation. On a trip to the living-history museum ...

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 ...