The time is right, Alan Roe of Iowa City believes, to contemplate peace. With the help of a talented chainsaw artist, Roe now has a 22-foot tall likeness of a human arm raised skyward, brandishing the ...

Every year around the holidays a local non-profit lights a Peace Tree at the Brown County Courthouse. Though it may seem like a Christmas tree, the Peace Tree is actually a year-round symbol for peace ...

Gerald Holtom's rarely exhibited original sketches for the peace symbol will go on view this March at the Imperial War Museum in London. Peace sign badges (courtesy ...

Editor’s Note: Read more unknown and curious design origin stories here. On Good Friday 1958, thousands gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to protest nuclear weapons. They were responding to a ...

Lanao del Sur Gov Mamintal Adiong Jr unveils the bronze Tree of Peace monument at the Lanao del Sur Provincial Capitol. With him is Unesco Goodwill Ambassador Hedva Ser, a renowned sculptor, and the ...

First-time author Moore draws from the story of a centuries-old bonsai tree that was donated to the United States for the 1976 bicentennial. The miniature white pine, she explains, became known as the ...