LBJ

Emails between Mayor Watson and the LBJ Foundation reveal a push to rename Austin-Bergstrom International Airport after President Lyndon B. Johnson.

From Texas Standard:In this age of Twitter-driven, toxic politics, it's an interesting intellectual exercise to try and imagine how historians might…

From Texas Standard.Because 1968 was such a historic year, 2018 is packed with momentous 50th anniversaries. It was a year of ideological divides,…

From Texas Standard.In September of 1971, hundreds of thousands of people packed Texas Stadium in Irving over 10 days. It wasn’t for a Dallas Cowboys…

This story was originally published on March 11, 2015.In 1967, famed landscape artist Peter Hurd unveiled a portrait of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson.…

What causes cities to grow and prosper – or not? Why does one side defeat another in war? Those are complex situations with a lot of contributing factors.…

From Texas Standard.The federal government released some 2,800 documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Thursday. A…

Fifty years ago today — Oct. 2, 1967 — Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. A former White…

From Texas Standard:A political analyst outlines three aspects of LBJ's campaign in 1964 against Republican nominee Barry Goldwater that could easily…

From Texas Standard:In Texas, the name Lady Bird Johnson demands a great amount of respect. That’s because Lady Bird was a Texan through and through. Her…