There are many books about the sixties in general and the hippies in particular. Some are serious scholarly tomes, while others are first-person accounts. I also have read most of the mainstream media coverage from the sixties (as it pertains to hippy counterculture.) You will soon find links to many original articles (the ones at the bottom of the list are live now!!)

I have studied and marked up many of the following. We are in the process of summarizing some of the most significant books for your learning pleasure. Also will be adding more all the time. Feel free to suggest others if you notice any missing from our list. You also will find some of the key LIVE websites listed elsewhere on this site.

This site is evolving all the time (as we all must be!!) Check back often and tell your friends!

BOOKS

• Allyn, David. 2000. Make Love, Not War. The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History. New York: Little, Brown and Company.
• Anderson, Terry H. 1995. The Movement and the Sixties. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Black, Johnny. 1999. Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Experience. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.
• Braunstein, Peter and Michael William Boyle. 2002. Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Du Noyer, Paul. 1999. John Lennon: Whatever Gets You Through the Night. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.
• Echols, Alice. 1999. Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin. New York: Henry Holt and Company Inc.
• Echols, Alice. 2002. Shaky Ground: The Sixties and its Aftershocks . New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
• Gitlin, Todd. 1987. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. New York, NY: Bantam Books.
• Gitlin, Todd. 2003. Letters to a Young Activist. New York, NY: Basic Books.
• Gross, Michael. 2000. My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith, and Silicone Chips. New York, NY: Cliff Street Books.
• Hatay, Nona. 1995. Jimi Hendrix: Reflections and Visions. San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks.
• Jacob, Jeffrey. 1997. New Pioneers: The Back-to-the-land Movement and the Search for a Sustainable Future. State College, PA: Penn State University Press.
• Kaiser, Charles. 1988. 1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation. New York, NY: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
• Marwick, Arthur. 1998. The Sixties. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Obst, David. 1991. Too Good to be Forgotten: Changing America in the '60s and '70s. New York, NW: John Wiley and Sons.
• McCleary, John Bassett. 2002. The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press.
• Miller, James. 1999. Almost Grown: the Rise of Rock. London: William Heinemann.
• Miller, Timothy. 1991. The Hippies and American Values. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press.
• Pichaske, David. 1989. A Generation in Motion: Popular Music and Culture in the Sixties. Granite Falls, Minn: Ellis Press.
• Riordan, James and Prochnicky, Jerry. 1991. Break On Through: the Life and Death of Jim Morrison. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
• Roof, Wade Clark. 1993. A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation. New York: Harper Collins.
• Sugarman, Danny. 1983. The Doors: The Illustrated History. New York: Quill.