Jimmy Carter's kids are honoring their father. On January 9, the former president was laid to rest in a national funeral service at Washington's National Cathedral. Former Presidents Bill Clinton, ...
Rev. Tony Lowden will read a prayer Thursday in Washington and then preside over the private, final service for President Jimmy Carter in Plains.
For many years, the 39th president generated little attention from authors. But recently books have sought to re-evaluate his ...
The peanut farmer from Georgia was a virtual unknown when he launched his long-shot 1976 presidential bid that took him from ...
Carter persisted, though. When Rosalynn visited Annapolis again that spring, the couple became engaged, and Carter gave her a ...
The author of a Jimmy Carter biography, Jonathan Alter, shares what it was like for Carter growing up in Plains and throughout his journey to the White House.
"Sunday Morning" looks back on the life of a public servant who sought to restore Americans' faith in the integrity of their government, and who was a Nobel Peace Prize-winner for his remarkable ...
The 39th president helped create the U.S. Department of Education. He had also been a school board member and an ...
Jimmy and Rosalynn, both from Plains, Georgia, wed on July 7, 1946, a year after their first date. In the summer of 1945, Jimmy, then-20 years old, asked Rosalynn, then-17 years old, out to the movies ...
Alter indicates that Carter by-and-large, avoided any involvement in the civil rights movement, including never meeting with ...