Today it means peace, but the iconic two-finger gesture has a much deeper and more surprising story. From World War victories to counterculture movements, discover how this simple sign transformed ...

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 ...

But turns out, the peace sign we know and love isn’t so much an ancient omnipresent symbol after all.In fact, it was created by an artist, Gerald Holtom, in 1958 as part of a series of anti ...

The symbol was quickly adopted by other movements that seek to bring peace to the world. It has been used in civil rights marches of the 1960s and during the Black Lives Matter marches today.

Peace: The Biography of a Symbol by Ken Kolsbun. National Geographic HK$260. Those who grew up in the west in the 1960s or 1970s might remember scrawling the circular peace symbol on a school ...