After a quarter century, American Girl dolls are still wildly popular

This article first appeared in the Sunday Wisconsin StateJournal. In 1986, three dolls — Kirsten, Samantha and Molly — took theirfirst bows. They were bigger than most dolls, at 18 inches, had bodies thatlooked more like real girls than the curvaceous Barbie, and theywere dressed to reflect different periods in American history. They came with …