The hippie icon Wave Gravy epitomizes the myth of the flower-children as being far more revolutionary than they actually were. Getty Images American schoolbooks often employ romanticized language to ...

User-Created Clip by mcgorry July 12, 2017 2017-07-08T20:25:25-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/6b0/20170708203041003_hd.jpgWilliam Rorabaugh describes the ...

Are there parallels between the anti-war, hippies of the 1960s and today’s social justice warriors? Are there valuable lessons we can learn from the past, both cultural and spiritual, that will give ...

In the late 1960s, long-haired, beaded and tie-dyed flower children brought their incense, guitars and peace symbols to South Florida. Hippies had finally reached Miami. Coconut Grove, known for its ...

These photos explore Miami's cultural history through visual archives. In the late 1960s, hippies congregated in Coconut Grove, smoking pot in parks and attending music festivals. The Miami Pop ...

For those who come to San Francisco/Summertime will be a love-in there/In the streets of San Francisco/Gentle People with flowers in their hair — Scott McKenzie’s 1967 song, a hippie anthem. The ...

“The revolution wasn’t televised, it was printed,” says Andrew Blauvelt, the curator of a new exhibition about visionary ideas in art, design, and architecture from the 1960s and early ’70s. In its ...