The Oregon Trail (video game)

He didn’t make a penny.

What does it mean to reform a game based on a violent history of land theft and appropriation?

A conversation with the lead designer of the 1985 version of the Oregon Trail video game.

You must always caulk the wagon. Never ford the river.

After navigating a minor hiccup in our own provisioning process, we set out for the West on what would be our longest trip yet.

'Freedom!' tried to show the horrors of antebellum slavery and the courage of escaping slaves. But neither schools nor audiences were ready for it.

Gameplay can be useful in history classrooms – but manufacturers have to think about how children will be affected by the competition.

The defining boundaries and problematic categorizations carried by our culture's treatment of the label "millennial."