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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

But in their place, a new symbol of hope — a springboard to better days in 2021 — has popped up at the north end of the beach. As the events unfolded in Washington on Wednesday when rioters stormed ...

Hindus are protesting Germany’s move to forbid the swastika in the European Union–a ban that already exists in some countries because of the symbol’s link to Nazism, right. But the hooked cross has ...