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31 Mar 2015, 1:10 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. of New York meeting with President Lyndon B. [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 2:09 pm by James
Lyndon, WI — A man was hospitalized following an accident with a dump truck in Lyndon, Wisconsin, on Monday, March 16, 2015. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 12:17 pm by Dan Ernst
[From the newsletter of the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.]To mark the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma on March 7, the Miller Center has compiled excerpts from President Lyndon Johnson’s secret White House tapes which shed new light on Johnson’s relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. and his support of voting rights legislation.Audio and transcripts of the excerpts, as well as a timeline of events, are featured in a newly… [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 6:27 am
""The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson," Robert A. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 9:01 pm by John Dean
Negative Political Campaigning It all started in 1964 with President Lyndon Johnson’s infamous little girl with the daisy ad. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 10:45 am by Howard Wasserman
Julian Zelizer, a historian at Princeton, has a new book titled The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society; he did a talk on it at Politics & Prose. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 1:29 pm by Hannah Kiddoo
  Teachers from around state gathered in Austin on Friday, Jan. 30, to attend the State Bar of Texas 2015 Law-Related Education Conference at the Lyndon B. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 2:12 pm by Andrew
Kingsland, TX — There was an accident reported near Kingsland on Lake Lyndon B. [read post]
18 Jan 2015, 1:01 pm by Jon Gelman
The US social change movement, resulted in the universal enactment of workers' compensation laws throughout the nation.The movie Selma highlights  that political pressure flowing resulting from  social movements were effectively brought to bear in 1964 on President Lyndon Baines Johnson. [read post]
18 Jan 2015, 11:35 am
Once, 4-year-old Lyndon "disappeared for several hours; his father located him only because Lyndon’s dog, 'Bigham Young,' was moving around in the cornfield in which the boy had been hiding and making the tassels wave. [read post]
18 Jan 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
"Eric Foner has a new book out next week, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (Norton), and it is discussed in the NYT, here.Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chayes (Norton) is reviewed in The Washington Post.Then there's Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s by Barbara Keys (Harvard University Press), reviewed on H-Net.Rick Perstein's The Invisible… [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 6:25 am
"Schools, already under intense pressure to deliver better test results and meet more rigorous standards, face the doubly difficult task of trying to raise the achievement of poor children so that they approach the same level as their more affluent peers....Many Republicans also think that the government ought to give tax dollars to low-income families to use as vouchers for private-school tuition, believing that is a better alternative to public schools....The report comes as Congress begins… [read post]
11 Jan 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
"Julian Zelizer's new book, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (Penguin) is discussed by Zelizer and Scott Porch.Continuing with a focus on race, there were several reviews of books on slavery. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
" "By distorting an essential truth about the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Dr. [read post]