When I was a kid my siblings used to tease me about reading the encyclopedia.I didn’t read it so much as get engrossed in a few choice items. I would look up some topic, usually a Civil War general, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Sue Thatcher at Shutterstock. If the 1960s had an emblem, it would, of course, be the hippies. The hippie movement ...

The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...

Hippie culture began in the 1960s as a social movement focused on peace, environmentalism, and simple communal living. While it has faded as a mainstream identity, its values of alternative lifestyles ...

The 1960s were a time of change, creativity, and a little rebellion. Hippies wanted to live differently, embracing peace, love, and freedom in everyday life. From music and fashion to food and travel, ...

In “The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” longtime Grateful Dead publicist and cultural historian Dennis McNally traces the unlikely evolution of American ...