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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. | Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Top Questions added. | Dec 29, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hillsdale College - Great Society: A New History. | Sep 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - The Great Society. | Jun 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hoover Institution - The Great Society: A New History With Amity Shlaes. | May 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital History - The Great Society and the Drive for Black Equality. | Dec 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Open Education at Bay Path University - HIS115 � US History Since 1870 - Great Society. | Sep 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Princeton University - The Health-Care Legacy of the Great Society. | Jun 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. | May 03, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Openstax - U.S. History - Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. | Mar 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - Thematic Window: The Great Society. | Sep 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Yale University - Open Yale Courses - The Public Use Limitation on Eminent Domain (PDF). | Jan 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Bill of Rights Institute - The Great Society. | Oct 13, 2022 | ||
| Article revised and expanded. | Feb 05, 2020 | ||
| Article revised to make clear that President Lyndon Johnson did not declare the war on poverty in his State of the Union address of January 1965. | May 21, 2014 | ||
| Added newsreel segment of Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson's State of the Union address in 1965. | Aug 27, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 15, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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