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 ...

For many, the cross with bent arms is a painful symbol of evil, hate and genocide. For others, it's an ancient sign of peace and prosperity. For all involved, it's an issue fraught with history, ...

This T-shirt was an attempt to reclaim the swastika as a symbol of peace. Screenshot from Twitter. An American company is facing criticism for marketing T-shirts that frame the swastika as a symbol of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Business Insider spoke with Tim Marshall, author of "Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags" about how the swastika was a symbol of peace until Hitler and the Nazi party changed its meaning.

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 ...

Others support the bill in spirit, but say using the word “swastika” to describe the Nazi emblem is not only incorrect, but potentially dangerous. They note that the symbol held sacred by an estimated ...