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American Hippies

9-27-15

Hippies Won the Culture War

by W. J. Rorabaugh

The Sixties counterculture, its beliefs and practices, its odyssey into the Seventies, and its many legacies as it became integrated into mainstream culture help explain the United States today.

SOURCE: University of Washington
8-17-15

Historian William Rorabaugh explores ’60s counterculture in ‘American Hippies’

"In the 1960s I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the flower power epicenter, and while I was never a hippie, one of my best friends from high school spent 13 years living a countercultural life. So the topic always interested me."