The series you loved, book by book. Join Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney as they explore the wild world of American Girl fandom. In each episode, Allison and Mary will dive into an American Girl book from their (and perhaps your) childhood. Using their knowledge as professional historians and finely tuned instincts as amateur pop culture critics, they’ll take you back to a very different time—the 1990s. Formerly American Girls Podcast.
Lois Lowry and Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce
Lois Lowry has written more than 40 books. As of this month, she is also featured in half of our 2021 Patreon episodes. This is incidentally very close to the total number of surviving Shakers. Just in time for spring, we read Lowry's Like the Willow Tree, a Dear America journey for the ages. Based on meticulous research at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community, this book features a young diarist named Lydia who loses her parents to the flu pandemic. Though the Shakers initially wreck her plans, Lydia eventually teach her how to bend to the wind. We discuss Shaker controversies, our varying levels of interest in intentional communities, and much more.
Like to read along? You can support the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
by purchasing Lowry's book here:
https://www.maineshakers.com/product/like-the-willow-tree-by-lois-lowry/
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Our next book (May 2021) is Last Night at the Telegraph Club, a novel
by Malinda Lo.
Original air date: April 21, 2021
1 Oct 2024
Dear America, Did you read The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple?
. . . .Well, we seem to have not remembered and this story may have tested our patience.
In this episode, we re-read the first Dear America book, set on and off the Mayflower in 1620-1621. Protagonist/diarist Remember a.k.a."Mem" experiences a lot of hardship and seasickness in this 1996 ribboned classic. She gets jealous when her friend is the "first" to step on Plymouth Rock and that's just the beginning. In our coverage, we talk about life in the 1600s, the limits of historical fiction, and representations of indigenous life in "pilgrim" stories.
Want to learn more re-indigenizing education? Check out the Akomawt
Educational Initiative - @akomawt on Twitter.
Original air date: September 28, 2020
1 Oct 2024
American Girl Fans in a Barbie World
In anticipation of the Barbie movie coming out this July, we took a dive into the corporate history of America’s (smaller) doll.
Join us for a review of Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her. Robin Gerber’s dual biography charts the rise of Barbie under the leadership of the ruthless girlboss Ruth Handler. Her book shares fascinating information about the culture of Mattel—and explains how Barbie and Ken got their names. Much like the Barbie movie, whether you have a love or hate the doll, this episode is for you.
Original air date: July 17, 2023
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