What Monopoly Can Teach Us About Our Own Inconvenient History

Have you ever wondered why the properties on a Monopoly game board are priced the way that they are? It turns out the pricing was based on the segregated streets of New York at a time when the class divide was even worse than today.

This article offered a sobering reminder that the artifacts we ignore or forget may hold the key to understanding the past, if we can remember to appreciate them:

“Seldom do we treat board games as important cultural artifacts akin to paintings, songs, or movies. But commonplace objects tucked into our closets and handed down from one generation to another can tell us important things about our past.”