American schoolbooks often employ romanticized language to describe the hippie era. A fairly typical passage from the ...

movement. Hippies, as is the fashion to call them, are the youths who in their total rejection of the values and roles of American society, "the system," have opted for a world of highly personal ...

Every movement creates its own primary sources, and the hippies of 1967 San Francisco had a psychedelic one: The San Francisco Oracle. Published in 12 fantastic issues from 1966 to 1968 ...

San Francisco was the spiritual home of the hippie movement, especially during the ‘Summer of Love’ in 1967. The hippie movement’s values are perhaps best represented by the free music ...