Sociology
Research Guides
War on Poverty
Subject Headings for Research on the War on Poverty
Other subject topics to use when researching the War on Poverty.
food stamps
Great Society
Head Start
job training
Lyndon B. Johnson
Medicare
Medicaid
youth employment
work study
UDM Books on War on Poverty
Project Head Start : a legacy of the War on Poverty
Edward Zigler and Jeanette Valentine, editors.. (Free Press, c1979)McNichols Campus Library
LC 4091 .P73
Review of Medicaid reform efforts in other states
David Fosdick and Steve Angelotti. (Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency, [2006])McNichols Campus Library
RA 412.4 .F67 2006
Journal Articles on the War on Poverty
Kennedy, Johnson, and the War on Poverty
Carl M. Brauer. The Journal of American History. (Vol. 69, No. 1 (Jun., 1982), pp. 98-119)In JStor
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The “War on Poverty” after 40 Years:
Stephanie A. Bell and L. Randall Wray. The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Social Science. (Working Paper No. 404, January 2004, p.1-33.)Websites on War on Poverty
Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty
NPR (National Public Radio).Listen to the NPR program on the 40th anniversary (2004) of President Lyndon's Johnson's first State of the Union address when he declared a War on Poverty. Listen to seven (7) other broadcasts related to the topic.
Modern History Sourcebook: President Lyndon B. Johnson: The War on Poverty, March 1964
Modern History Sourcebook.The text of President Lyndon Johnson's special message to Congress in 1964. "This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook" and was taken from "Public Papers of U.S. Presidents, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964 (Washington: G.P.O., 1965), 1, pp. 375-380."
Primary Sources: Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President: State of the Union Address, 1964
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service).Read the entire State of the Union address to Congress on March 16, 1964.
Read the transcript of a panel of experts examining "which anti-poverty initiatives have worked and what role government can play in improving quality of life."
eBooks on the War on Poverty
Suggested Databases for Articles on War on Poverty
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VIDEOS
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E 176.1 .P74 2008 v.6
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Listen to President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty section of this first address to Congress.
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