There’s something electric about stepping into a world where peace, love, and music reign supreme. In our fast-paced digital age, hippie festivals offer a rare escape, a chance to reconnect with ...

All photos by Steve Schapiro, from ‘Bliss: Transformational Festivals and the Neo-Hippie’ (all images courtesy Powerhouse Books) In 1967, Chicago-based photojournalist Steve Schapiro became famous for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Sue Thatcher at Shutterstock. If the 1960s had an emblem, it would, of course, be the hippies. The hippie movement ...

People left mainstream culture in the 1960s and 70s for numerous reasons. For many, it came from restlessness, curiosity, or frustration with the limits of the status quo. Hippie culture encouraged ...

Hippies have been an important element of our American culture for over 50 years. Established in the 1960s, this counterculture movement attracted those that rejected the mores of mainstream American ...

As the 2025-26 academic year comes to a close, many graduating seniors are getting ready to enter the professional world. For the athletes, many... Drum circles on campus lawns, hookahs in residence ...

When the free love movement blossomed in America in the 1960s, many folks started to look at relationship dynamics in more nuanced ways. It went hand in hand with the counterculture hijinks of the ...

We talk about the hippie culture of the 1960s and 1970s and ask what happened to hippie ideals. Guest host Patt Morrison speaks with John McCleary, author of The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural ...