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Tag: History

Meet the real inventor of the Monopoly board game: Progressive activist Elizabeth Magie

February 15th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Media & Culture

Meet the real inventor of the Monopoly board game: Progressive activist Elizabeth Magie Before there was Monopoly, there was the Landlord’s Game, invented by progressive

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The real origins of the religious right

May 27th, 2014 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Media & Culture

The real origins of the religious right “They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation,” writes Randall Balmer in

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