In the 1950s and 1960s, housing and urban inequality were at the center of national politics. American cities were grappling with rapid urban decline, segregated and substandard housing, and the ...

Richard Nixon took measures for short-term political gain that harmed the economy for the rest of the 1970s. | Opinion ...

Rep. Henry Cuellar warns of health and food aid losses if Republican bill passes, calling it unbalanced and hurting ...

It has become one of the great suspense stories in American letters, the nonfiction equivalent of Ahab and the white whale: Robert Caro and his leviathan, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Caro, perhaps the ...

Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led to Lyndon Johnson assuming the presidency in 1963.

And, not long after that, she was taught to paint ... who was later appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the first Federal Aviation Administration women’s advisory committee.

President Lyndon B. Johnson also had a "blind" trust created for his television station. When Johnson became Vice President in 1963, his staff "urged him to sell the station" to avoid potential ...

Art collectors Janine Sherman Barrois and Lyndon J. Barrois Sr ... and a 1992 jacket Mark Bradford made of fused hair end papers, now framed in Simmons’s dining room. She made both purchases ...

OGDEN — Lyndon Johnson stepped down as Ben Lomond’s head football coach following an 0-10 finish to his sixth season with the team. Ogden School District made the position publicly available ...

When President Lyndon B ... Shettleworth to watch Johnson’s speech in City Hall Plaza, just a few feet from where he spoke. “I don’t remember it being a long speech, and then he turned ...