Restricted to the shorthand of “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll,” the counterculture would seem to be a brief, vibrant stretch of the 1960s. But the Ameri

The American counterculture played a major role during a pivotal moment in American history. Post-War prosperity combined with the social and political repressi

Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative ess

This short overview of the United States hippie social movement examines hippie beliefs and practices.

Rebelling against bourgeois vacuity and taking their countercultural critique on the road, the Beat writers and artists have long symbolized a spirit of freedom