For over fifty-years, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, and the entire Peanuts Gang have entertained American audiences through the genius of creator Charles M. Schulz. The Peanuts comic strip is much more than just the funny-pages. Peanuts represents a watershed in American comic art, reflecting the changes of the American cultural landscape of the Baby Boom generation, particularly in the 1950’s and the 1960’s. It uses the iconography of American childhood and the American family to tackle philosophy, religion, science, government, social movements, war, love, depression, anxiety, school, sports, and doghouses. Our site explores the American cultural issues permeating through the strip and its characters, as well as the strip’s effects on America itself.