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The papers of Abbie Hoffman, the puckish activist who gained a national reputation as a radical hippie, make clear the extent to which the tumult of that era regularly swirled around him: the ...

Abbie Hoffman, born and raised in Worcester, gained notoriety in 1968 as a member of the Chicago Seven. Before his time as a member of the group that sought to upend the Democratic National Convention ...

Leonard Quart's July 5 oped piece on Abbie Hoffman and Lenny Snyder brought back a flood of memories from that era. I had just joined the faculty at SUNY Geneseo in 1968 when Hoffman staged a ...

Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader, is shown as the FBI removes him from the Men's Federal House of Detention on West St., to Federal Courthouse at Foley Square in New York, May 6, 1971.

An event this weekend will mark 50 years since anti-war activists attempted an “exorcism” of the Pentagon, and will feature the man from Detroit who burned a draft card and became part of a historic ...