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 ...

Monopoly tokens are the little pieces used to play the game, tracking your progress as you move around the board. The first version of Monopoly had ten tokens, but throughout the years, new pieces ...

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 ...