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 ...

The captured authoritarian leader flashed a symbol that many took to be a defiant peace sign. Loyal lawmakers repeated the gesture at a session in Caracas.

The peace symbol originated as a sign based on an “individual in despair . . . in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad.” The symbol that would become synonymous with the Campaign for ...

It's unlikely the creator of the iconic '60s peace symbol envisioned making a fashion statement well into the 21st century. Today, designers have embraced the symbol again, using it on T-shirts, ...

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) ...

Thanks to my colleague Scott Klein for telling me that the Peace Sign, one of the most widely known symbols in the world, turns fifty this week. It was first displayed on home-made banners and badges ...

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 ...