American Girl — the purveyor of fancy historically themed dolls that my parents never bought me as a kid, not like I’m mad about it or anything — is digging deep into the past for its latest doll. Yesterday, the Mattel-owned brand threw swaths of older millennials and Gen Xers into an existential crisis by announcing their newest “Historical Character” doll comes from the faraway time of 1986.

According to her introductory book, the Courtney Moore doll is “an avid