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 ...

You may know Monopoly as one of the most popular classic board games in modern history, or as the game that means your family members all stop talking to each other for a couple of hours over ...

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 ...