Monopoly is one of the most famous board games in the world, but its origins reveal a very different purpose. Originally ...

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 ...

Before Monopoly made millions, a woman invented the game. And almost no one knew her name. In 1903, American game designer ...

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 ...