AmericanPresident offers a comprehensive overview of the 1964 campaign and election of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Content includes a focus on the separate campaigns waged by Johnson and his challenger, Barry Goldwater.

Essay on the challenges faced by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the final year of his presidency, after his announcement to not seek reelection.

Learn more about the president who expanded both the war in Vietnam and social programs at home.

This Sentinel writer tells of personal accounts and connections to the Texas men who had gone on to become President or Vice President of the United States of America.

Facts, biography, and accomplishments of the life of Lyndon Johnson and summaries of important events during his presidency.

Video presentation on the impact foreign policy has on a presidency. Using Lyndon B. Johnson as an example, the author of this presentation discusses the political ramifications of an activist foreign policy. Information is provided in...

This is a unit about the assassination of JFK. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m. while riding in a motorcade in Dallas during a campaign visit. Kennedy's motorcade was turning past the Texas...

Newspaper article confirms that LBJ knew about Nixon's involvement in stalling the Vietnam peace talks and didn't bother to report it. Though the story has been around before, the new tapes describe how President Johnson knew all about...

Learn all about The Great Society that was the vision of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Joint Resolution for the Maintenance of Peace and Security in Southeast Asia, known as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, on August 10, 1964, giving him a free hand to escalate the war in Vietnam.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted to prevent discrimination and protect voting rights. It was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 6, 1965, to safeguard the right to vote of Black Americans and ban the use of...

Russia was ahead in the "space race" in 1961. In this article, the Library of Congress discusses how President Kennedy assigned Lyndon Johnson the task of uniting the different parts of the U.S. space program into NASA.

In 1965, the Watts Riots broke out in an African American neighborhood in Los Angeles sparked by allegations of police brutality.

Learn about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that was aimed at ending segregation and racial discrimination.

The Tet Offensive, a massive surprise attack launched by the Vietnamese on January 30, 1968, was a turning point in the Vietnam War.

The My Lai Massacre in 1968 saw the mass killing of unarmed South Vietnamese people, most of whom were old men, women, and children, by American troops.

Black Panthers, founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, preached black power, black nationalism, and economic self-sufficiency.