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Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1969. The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, commonly known as the Moynihan Report, was a 1965 report on black poverty in the United States written by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American scholar serving as Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Lyndon B. Johnson and later to become a US Senator.
Masters and Johnson met in 1957 when William Masters hired Virginia Johnson as a research assistant to undertake a comprehensive study of human sexuality. According to author Thomas Maier , as part of their clinical research Masters and Johnson observed paid volunteers engaging in sexual activity while hooked to wires in their lab. [ 5 ]
Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets (1779–81) was possibly the first thorough-going exercise in biographical criticism. [1]Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [2]
Walter Johnson (born 1967) is an American historian, and a professor of History and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, where he previously (2014–2020) directed the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.
The City of Fall River; its city clerk's office, which helped sort out the mystery of Herbert Johnson's birth certificate; and its Board of Elections, which helped in the search for the truth ...
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member Presidential Commission established in July 1967 by President Lyndon B. Johnson in Executive Order 11365 to investigate the causes of over 150 riots throughout the country in 1967 and to provide recommendations that would prevent them from ...
Johnson's 1965 State of the Union. The Johnson Doctrine, enunciated by United States president Lyndon B. Johnson after the country's intervention in the Dominican Republic in 1965, declared that domestic revolution in the Western Hemisphere would no longer be a local matter when the object is the establishment of a "communist dictatorship". [1]
Paul Johnson, a historian and journalist, is known for his works on history and civilization, including Modern Times (1983), and A History of Christianity (1976). In A History of the Jews, Johnson aims to provide a comprehensive narrative of Jewish history from its origins to the 20th century. Unlike some academic treatments of Jewish history ...