James Deutsch | Senior Content Coordinator, Smithsonian’s America at 250 Book Project On Friday the 13th, as Walt Disney Pictures releases its third Cinderella, one has to wonder why yet another?

Once upon a time, a man had a daughter as lovely and kind as her mother. Alas, her mother died, and this man married a second wife who had two daughters exactly like their mother, too — haughty and ...

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The Cinderella story as we know it now is largely the product of the simpering 1950 animated Disney film: companionable mice, a fairy godmother who doesn't question her only ward's decision to go to a ...

Like lonely and unloved children everywhere, I hoarded stories as a girl; they populated my much-too-small and often hurtful world with those I knew and loved: Jo March, Eloise, Laura Ingalls, and, of ...