Centuries later, the 1960s Chicano Movement began appropriating Aztec motifs (more on this in an upcoming column) and picked up on the People of the Sun's longing for the Garden.

Kevin Costner: 'Horizon' settlers saw America as Garden of Eden "They didn't realize there was a people here who had been flourishing for 15,000 years," Costner told reporters.

The cover and heft of "American Eden: ... Writing about the 1960s craze for all things Polynesian, he surveys an old garden and thinks how once there were "luaus, pool parties, ...

As we enter the 21st century, the great gardens of Santa Barbara occupy a curious place in American culture, at once part of Thomas Jefferson’s monumental effort to build paradise here, on this ...

“The Space Between Garden and Eve,” by Adam Fuss, is a daguerreotype that is being exhibited in “Back to Eden: Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden” at New York’s Museum of Biblical Art.