The New Game of the American Revolution

This segment of Collections Corner features the Institute’s director of education, Stacia Smith, discussing The New Game of the American Revolution, a 2022 acquisition from our library’s Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection. Created in 1844 by the author of the Merry Cards, The New Game was printed in Boston by Lorenzo Burge/Thayer & Company Lithographers, and designed as an educational tool to teach young adults about the Revolutionary War through its sixty landing spots representing events, themes and scenes of the war.