Telling American Stories: Mattel and the Material Culture of the US Past.

This article examines Mattel's mid-1990s American Stories Collection—a short-lived line of Barbie dolls depicting moments from U.S. history—as a lens on the intersection of popular culture, material culture, and collective memory during the "History Wars" of the 1990s. Created in part to compete wit...

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Published in:	Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 101 - 127
Main Author:	Miller, Marla R.
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Toronto Press Aug2025
Subjects:	Barbie dolls Material culture Mattel Inc. Dolls in popular culture Dollmaking Collective memory Public history United States history
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost