Discover the unexpected history behind Monopoly, America’s favorite board game. Monopoly is America’s favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind ...

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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 ...

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Professor Ralph Anspach, inventor of a game called "Anti-Monopoly" is locked in a legal battle with General Mills over his claim that the company stole the game "Monopoly" from the public. Anspach ...

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 ...

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 ...