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 ...

Feb. 17—Stephen Ives says the majority of Americans have sat down to play the board game Monopoly. "We can all probably count on one hand how many times we've actually finished it and declared a ...

Think you know the history of the Monopoly board game? You might be surprised. The tale was included in every Monopoly box sold for decades: During the Great Depression, a down-on-his-luck repairman ...

A group of children play the popular board game Monopoly, 1942. Courtesy Museum of History and Industry, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection. This article is the third in a series called A Thousand ...

Monopoly is one of the best-selling board games in history — sales went up during the COVID-19 pandemic. The game is built on powerful American lore: anyone can rise from rags to riches. As inflation ...