The peace symbol, an icon of the 1960s and 1970s, is back, man. While it has never really disappeared from popular culture, it seems to have been revived by another generation. But it's hard to say ...

We all know the Peace Symbol, which Americans of a certain age associate with the protests against the Vietnam War. Fewer know that the symbol is much older than that, dating back to ANOTHER protest ...

Jim Marshall photographed the spread of the peace sign between 1961 and 1968, with his images now published for the first time by Reel Art Press. Cover of Jim Marshall: Peace (courtesy Reel Art Press) ...

The new book,Peace: The Biography of Symboltakes a look at the life of the cultural icon The symbol made its first public appearance in April 1958, when campaigners for nuclear disarmament held a four ...

We’re all familiar with the peace sign, and not just because many of us went through that truly unfortunate early teen 2000s phase where holding up a peace sign in every photo was the answer to your ...

The time is right, Alan Roe of Iowa City believes, to contemplate peace. With the help of a talented chainsaw artist, Roe now has a 22-foot tall likeness of a human arm raised skyward, brandishing the ...

In 1945, an estimated 340,000 people died when the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. After those attacks, other countries around the world began ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — It started when six members of the mythical North Side Liberation Front sneaked up Waterworks Hill above this city one night 18 years ago and painted their message on a big microwave ...

WASHINGTON – The peace symbol – three simple lines within a circle – turns 50 today. It’s had a colorful and often turbulent life, which is odd considering that it’s supposed to symbolize, you know, ...