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Turns American Girl dolls and the ever-growing ecosystem surrounding them inside out.

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Mark Gruenwald explores the career and lasting influence of Mark Gruenwald (1953–1996), a pivotal...

When fiddler and farmer Henry Smith and his wife Harriet moved from Michigan to southwest Missour...

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In Driftin' on a Memory: Celebrating Seventy Years of the Isley Brothers, Trenton Bailey tells th...

Since his first arrest in 1975, Ted Bundy has been the most ubiquitous serial killer in US popula...

Return to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural no...

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Canadian cartoonist Lynn Johnston (b. 1947) is best known for creating the comic strip For Better...

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Before it was Jackson State University(R), it was Natchez Seminary, a school built on a vision of...