The sandwich has been called "the mainstay of almost everyone's American childhood", and "the staple of the snatched office lunch for a generation."

Learn about the opening of Disneyland and how a theme park grew to be an essential part of American childhood.

A homage to an American childhood feels a little fake in Paris.

Suffice it to say that utopian thinking, science, nature, pop culture and an American childhood are in the conceptual mix.

George Kimmerling's installation is a horror-tale version of American childhood.

At home, the emphasis is on living a normal American childhood.

But in spite of all, "I really did have a fairly normal American childhood," he continued.

It was a classic rise from a working-class American childhood, and the only thing that set Clarke apart was his race.

I always wanted the carefree American childhood, not the one freighted with history and religion and social responsibility.

He pointed out that American childhoods are far more expensive than those in other countries, from both a personal and a social perspective.