Students will study the Great Society and the role Congress played in shaping it. This lesson plan focuses on small group research to draw conclusions on the historical significance of each aspect of The Great Society Congress. Sources...

Read about the reforms and legislation undertaken through Lyndon B. Johnson's concept of the Great Society. These included economic and educational reforms, consumer protection, changes to immigration laws, and the Voting Rights Act of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs, i.e., Medicare and Medicaid, were created in the 1960's to curb poverty and racism. This lesson offers students the opportunity to read about the programs and...

This collection uses primary sources to explore programs and impact of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.

Read about President Lyndon Johnson's vision for the Great Society. See how the programs instituted were focused on lifting the poor from poverty, especially African Americans. Included were laws to increase civil rights and voting...

Official homepage for the Royal Astronomical Society, dedicated to "the encouragement and promotion of astronomy and geophysics."

An explanation on the importance of institutions and professional societies which have led to a great deal of progress in science.

Complete teaching unit for 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: "Improving Society." Students will read six texts about problems in society. Throughout the unit, 8th graders will gather information from their readings in a graphic...

This primary source set uses photographs, videos, reports, speeches, and memorandums to explore the motivations and effectiveness of the Great Society. Includes Teacher's guide.

This is the text, audio, and video [7:33] of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's speech "The Great Society" delivered on May 22, 1964, in Ann Arbor, Michigan; It outlines his plans for the Great Society.

Here is a list, with descriptions, of the major Great Society programs and many of the laws passed in the Lyndon Baines Johnson administration to support those programs.

This site offers an article from the "Washington Monthly" in which Joseph Califano, Jr. disputes the claims of conservative pundits that Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society programs constituted a failed social experiment that wasted the...

President Lyndon Johnson launched his legislation plans for his "Great Society" soon after he became president. Read about the many pieces of legislation that were passed in just a few years. See what happened to tarnish Johnson's...

Lyndon B. Johnson ascended to the presidency after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. With a year to go until the election of 1964, LBJ appropriated Kennedy's "New Frontier" and transformed this agenda into his "Great Society."

There were many governmental programs that were part of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Find a flow chart that showswhich different programs belonged to which major topics.

This online magazine offers the latest news and information concerning the relationship between society and available technologies.

This primary source document, digitized in its original form, will give students and teachers an opportunity to view the official stance of the American Anti-Slavery Society of 1833.

This site, part of the E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore, includes links to more than fifty different sites with literary criticism by and about Edgar Allan Poe.

The American Society of Primatologists is an educational and scientific organization that aims to understand non-human primates and to facilitate the exchange of information about them.

In this statement, The Geological Society describes the changes that are happening to the global climate in terms of what evidence has been observed in our geological history. For example, what happened during past events of rapid...

World History learning module with comprehensive multi-media reources for student exploration of early African and Meso-American societies.

The text of the Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962.

A comprehensive storehouse of all types of information on Asia, both current and past: maps and statistics, Asian food, travel guides, photographs, articles, timelines, and more. Asia Source is the work of the Asia Society, a national...

AP Government and Politics learning module explores political patterns and how they are influenced by the interactions between state and society. Comprehensive, multi-media resources.