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 ...

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 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 ...

Baby Boomers may recall it through a swirl of tear gas, scrawled on walls, on signs in marches and silent sit-ins, or on the helmet covers of weary Vietnam soldiers. The peace sign, which turns 50 in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. By Annie Correal Annie Correal reported from ...

In the wake of Friday night’s Paris attacks, which left at least 128 people dead in six incidents around the city, one poignant sketch began circulating social media to honor the victims. The symbol, ...