History Detectives

History Detectives - Season 2 Episode 2 Early Monopoly / Internment Artwork / Lewis and Clark Cane

2014-07-22 60 minutes.
7.00 3 votes

Season - Episode

11 Season 11 Jul 01, 2014
3 Season 3 Jun 27, 2005
1 Season 1 Jul 14, 2003

Overview

Early Monopoly? The Place: Arden, Delaware A man in Delaware has an old board game that bears a remarkable similarity to Monopoly, but was made 20 years before Parker Brothers patented their creation. Could he own the earliest version of the world's best-selling board game? History Detectives investigates Monopoly's history and discovers a surprising story. Rather than originating in the Great Depression of the 1930s, Monopoly could be a much older game, reflecting an economic argument that - if followed - would have created a radically different economy than today's. Japanese Internment Camp Artwork The Place: San Francisco, California A San Francisco archive has discovered a set of watercolor paintings of what appears to be a prison camp. Piecing them together shows they were painted on the back of a Japanese-American internment notice from 1942. What is the story behind these paintings? Who was the artist? And what was his or her fate? History Detectives uncovers the dramati

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