You may know Miami as a tourist magnet. Or as a capital of Latin American business. Or even a growing tech nest. But parts of Miami in the 1960s just wanted to be groovy, man. This was no ...

I moved to the States in my junior year of high school and two years later I arrived at this beautiful campus. Full of eagerness to assimilate into the American culture, I learned U.S. history and the ...

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 ...

The hippie movement called out to the young and the free, the poetic madness that gripped the 1960’s at a time when it was revolutionary to burn a bra, rip up a flag or say, “No, I won’t go” to ...

Superficially, 1960s-era hippies have little in common with Tea Partiers. The former group practiced free love, used drugs and called for an end to war. The latter tend to be passionately conservative ...

Some fun facts about hippie fashion courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts’ eye-popping, psychedelic 1960s fashion showcase “Hippie Chic”: Secret compartments in your metal jewelry could conceal your ...