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 ...

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 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. ...

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, ...

If you're into counterculture kitsch, you might want to check out the nostalgia-themed resort hotel at Walt Disney World in Florida. It features a "Hippy Dippy" swimming pool, surrounded by ...

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 ...