Simply put, the 1960s “movement,” now almost universally lauded, was widely hated in its own time, but that didn’t stop it ...

movement. Hippies, as is the fashion to call them, are the youths who in their total rejection of the values and roles of American society, "the system," have opted for a world of highly personal ...

But despite the hippies’ outward displays of peace and love, the movement was fraught with eruptions of violence. And as the war came to an end, so did the hippie era.

The term “metal” is believed to have come from the hippie movement, when “heavy” meant deep or serious. Metal music revolves around a few key components: heavily distorted guitar riffs and ...

The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound impact on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Within the Soviet system, a colorful crowd of ...

Every movement creates its own primary sources, and the hippies of 1967 San Francisco had a psychedelic one: The San Francisco Oracle. Published in 12 fantastic issues from 1966 to 1968 ...

San Francisco was the spiritual home of the hippie movement, especially during the ‘Summer of Love’ in 1967. The hippie movement’s values are perhaps best represented by the free music ...

The media flocked to the event, putting hippies in the national spotlight for the first time. And once the press offered a window into the world of Haight Ashbury, even more young people flooded in.