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 ...

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The 1960s counterculture fuelled an artistic explosion in the US – but were the flower children merely privileged? Devon Van Houten Maldonado investigates. They revolted against war and haircuts, ...

What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding? That’s the question that we should be asking in light of the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love. Hippie values and culture have been taking a ...

“It was easy to see that the young men who were hippies on Haight Street wore beards and long hair and sometimes earrings and weird-o granny eye-glasses, and that they were generally dirty.” The ...