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 ...

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 ...

WILKES-BARRE — Sophie Kurbanov busily worked on her personal peace symbol poster that she intends to hang on her bedroom wall. Kurbanov, 10, is one of 20 children attending this week’s Peace Camp at ...

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) ...

A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a ...

Baby Boomers may recall it through a swirl of tear gas, scrawled on walls, on signs in marches and silent sit-ins, or on the helmet covers of weary Vietnam soldiers.The peace sign, which turns 50 in ...

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 ...

Crosses, Stars of David, the Egyptian ankh, Chinese characters - they're all symbols that are commonly worn by people who subscribe to their meanings. In this edition of It’s a Material World, ...

1970, and I was leaving to serve as a flight surgeon for the U.S. Army in Vietnam. My wife, Yolanda, gave me a chain with a silver peace symbol on it. She hoped it would protect me and also serve as a ...

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 ...

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 ...