Go ahead, name your movement. Name something good and positive and pro-environment and eco-friendly that's happening in the newly "greening" of America and don't say more guns in Texas or fewer ...

One sociologist calls them “the Freudian proletariat.” Another observer sees them as “expatriates living on our shores but beyond our society.” Historian Arnold Toynbee describes them as “a red ...

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, ...

Hippies gather at Elysian Park for a "Love-In," a celebration of peace and love, at Eysian Park in Los Angeles, on March 26, 1967 Hippies gather at Elysian Park for a "Love-In," a celebration of peace ...

he hippie "scene" on Haight Street in San Francisco was so very visual that photographers came from everywhere to shoot it, reporters came from everywhere to write it up with speed, and oportunists ...

When the Counterculture Museum opened Thursday afternoon on the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco, its first two paying customers were waiting at the door in boho-chic paisley and ...

We've the news today that the last remaining primary lead smelter in the US is to close. Probably a good idea and the reason it's closing is simply because we don't need it any more. In this sense the ...

(Richard Peterson of the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., delivered a paper in San Juan on "Student Attitudes and Activism in the United States." The following short excerpt from his ...