National Museum of American History | How your Ancestors Had Fun at Home | Pandemic Perspectives @SmithsonianAmHistory | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
In the past six months, Americans and people worldwide have rediscovered board games, sought out new digital interactives, and increased vinyl purchases—which outsold CDs for the first time since 1986. Panelists in this session will discuss board games and technology interactives in the early Republic; parlor music and pianos around the time of the 1918 pandemic; and board, electronic, and video games in the present. They also will address who has the luxury of time and money to play and how that varies across race, class, gender, and age.

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