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Monopoly was never just a game
Monopoly is one of the most famous board games in the world, but its origins reveal a very different purpose. Originally ...
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A game about fairness turned into a game about winning - History of Monopoly
The board game we know as Monopoly began as a tool to teach economic inequality and fairness. Originally designed to ...
People think Monopoly was born of the Great Depression. But as author Mary Pilon discovered, Monopoly was actually created as a leftwing teaching tool around the Gilded Age. Mary Pilon, author of The ...
Between 1902 and 1903, Elizabeth Magie designed and playtested a board game called The Landlord’s Game in Arden, Delaware as a means to educate the masses about Georgism — an economic philosophy that ...
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie was born in 1866 in Macomb during the heart of the Reconstruction era. The daughter of James Magie, a newspaper publisher and an abolitionist who once traveled with Abraham ...
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