Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health ...

August 6 is the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Let us honor the sacrifices of the past by recommitting ourselves ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on this day in history, July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It forbade discrimination in public spaces, among other steps.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law, dedicating it to former President Harry Truman, who "planted the seeds of compassion." ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses NASA employees at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas on March 1, 1968. The center would be renamed for Johnson on Feb. 19, 1973, a month after the ...

Charles Peter's biography, [Lyndon B. Johnson: The 36th President, 1963-1969], is part of The American Presidents series published by Times Books. Mr.

On July 31, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reviving the Presidential Fitness Test. Here's what to know ...

Lyndon B. Johnson’s first year as president was one for the history books: it began with President Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, and ended almost exactly a year later with Johnson ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed a utopian new vision for the United States under a vastly expanded federal government, which he dubbed the Great Society, on this day in history, Jan. 4, 1965.

December 1, 2008 Historians on Lyndon B. Johnson ... Historians spoke about Lyndon Johnson ’s White House and related several anecdotes about President Johnson’s activities in the residence.