American Girls

The creators and hosts of the “American Girls” podcast, Trinity College alumnae Allison Horrocks ’09 and Mary Mahoney ’09 have found a way to tie together their childhood passion and their professions as historians. In the podcast, Mahoney—who double-majored in history and English and is now back at Trinity as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities—and Horrocks—a double-major in American studies and English who is now a park ranger at Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts—analyze book after book, doll after doll of the beloved American Girl series, which was created by Pleasant Company in 1986.