Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

Welcome to the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is part of the Presidential Library system administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, a Federal government agency.

News & Announcements

2013 SUMMER SEMINAR: THE CAMP DAVID ACCORD 35 YEARS LATER - Participants will leave the seminar with GPS & CCSS-correlated classroom-ready lessons, as well as new ideas for teaching Social Studies, U. S., and World History using primary sources. For more details and an application...
[ 2013 SUMMER SEMINAR ]
THE CARTER CHRONICLE BLOG!!!!! - The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum brings you another way to stay up-to-date through our new blog!
[ THE CARTER CHRONICLE ]
NEW CURRICULUM!!! - The President's Travels - The President's Travels is NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD: 19 Units, covering grades 2 - 12, all GPS-correlated, based on primary sources from our holdings, and covering a breadth of content areas: Geography, U. S. History, Civics, Energy & Environment, Human Rights, U. S. Foreign Policy, Science & Health, Current Events, the Middle-East, Segregation & Civil Rights, even Character Education
[ THE PRESIDENT'S TRAVELS ]
PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES PASSPORT PROGRAM!!!
[ Passport to Presidential Libraries ]
FIELD TRIP SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM!!!! - The Jimmy Carter Library & Museum and the Coca-Cola Foundation have generously established funding for the Carter Library to provide transportation funds for Georgia schools to use when bringing students to our newly-renovated museum for educational activities.
[ Field Trip Sponsorship Program ]

Exhibits & Events

EXHIBIT - NOW OPEN!!!: "The American President: Photographs from the Archives of The Associated Press" - Saturday, May 11, 2013 - Sunday, July 21, 2013 - Free with Paid Admission to Museum

Ever since Zachary Taylor and the Whig Party won the White House more than 150 years ago, AP reporters and photographers have been the dominant source of presidential news for media across the U.S. and around the world. For a limited time, the Carter Presidential Museum is displaying 70 photographs of American Presidents from the archives of The Associated Press. more...
Larry Colton - "Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race" - Monday, May 20, 2013 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater- Free & Open to the Public

Former pro pitcher Larry Colton, who played for the Philadelphia Phillies, tells the story of the Southern League's 1964 Birmingham Barons, the first integrated sports team in Alabama, as they competed at the height of the civil rights protests. more...
Gianna Angelopoulos - "My Greek Drama: Life, Love and One Woman's Olympic Effort to Bring Glory to Her Country" - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki is an Olympic organizer, ambassador of the Greek state, lawyer, and former parliamentarian. In 1996, the prime minister of Greece appointed her to lead the country's successful campaign to host the 2004 Olympic Games. In My Greek Drama, Gianna Angelopoulos--known in her home country simply as ''Gianna''--has written a memoir that is as much about Greece's journey as her own. Gianna worked her way into becoming one of the most respected women in Greek public life. more...
116th Georgia Army National Guard Band Concert - Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 2:00pm - Concert - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Lobby - Free and Open to the Public

The 116th Georgia Army National Guard Band will perform a Memorial Day Weekend Concert in the Carter Museum lobby at 2pm on Sunday, May 26th at 2:00 pm. The 90 minute concert, filled with patriotic songs, is free and open to the public. more...
Denise Kiernan - "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story Of The Women Who Helped Win World War II" - Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 7:00pm - Reading/Booksigning - Carter Presidential Library and Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

AT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians--many of them young women from small towns across the South--were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. more...
Colum McCann - "TransAtlantic: A Novel" - Monday, June 10, 2013 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater or Carter Center Day Chapel - Ticketed Event

The Jimmy Carter Library, ACappella Books and the AJC-Decatur Book Festival are proud to present National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann for a discussion of his new novel "TransAtlantic". McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined. Tickets are available at ACappella Books or http://www.acappellabooks.com more...
Carol Berkin - "A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American" - Friday, June 14, 2013 at 7:00pm - Reading/Signing - Carter Presidential Library and Museum Theater - Free and Open to the Public

Revisiting all the original documents and using her deep knowledge of eighteenth-century history and politics, Carol Berkin takes a fresh look at the men who framed the Constitution, the issues they faced, and the times they lived in. Berkin transports the reader into the hearts and minds of the founders, exposing their fears and their limited expectations of success. more...
John Summers - "Cotton Tenants by James Agee & Walker Evans" - Monday, June 17, 2013 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

"Cotton Tenants" is a re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer. Published for the first time, Agee's original report - accompanied by thirty of Walker Evans's historic photos, some never before published - is an unsparing record of place and of three families who worked the land at a desperate time. Editor John Summers and Hugh Davis will discuss the work. more...
George Packer - "The Unwinding: The Inner History of the New America" - Wednesday June 19, 2013 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater or Carter Center Day Chapel - Ticketed Event

The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider who oscillates between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet's significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future. The narrative combines these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era's leading public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and with collages of headlines, slogans, and songs that capture the flow of events and undercurrents. Tickets are available at ACappella Books or http://www.acappellabooks.com more...
Brendon Koerner - "The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking" - Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Center Day Chapel - Free & Open to the Public

Brendon Koerner's new book tells the true tale of a young couple who successfully hijacked a Western Airlines flight in 1972. Charles Duhigg has called it "one of the best books I've read this year," while David Grann has called it "a riveting and illuminating book that will hold you in its spell." more...
CANCELLED - H. W. Brands - "The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace" - Wednesday, July 24, 2013

"THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY THE BOOK PUBLISHER BECAUSE OF A SCHEDULING PROBLEM" more...
Fred Gray - "Bus Ride to Justice: The Life and Works of Fred Gray" - Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

Fred Gray grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, and had to leave the state to finish his education because blacks could not then attend Alabama law schools. He returned to his hometown in 1954 and became one of two black lawyers in the city. He was, he writes, "determined to destroy everything segregated that I could find." He did not have to wait long. When his friend Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance on a Montgomery bus, 26-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray became his-and the movement's-lawyer. This is his story. Note: President Carter nominated Gray to the federal bench, but after a year of debate over his nomination, he withdrew from consideration. Gray later became the first African-American President of the ABA. more...
Sam Freedman - "Breaking the Line:The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights" - Wednesday, September 26, 2013 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

1967. Two rival football teams. Two legendary coaches. Two talented quarterbacks. Together they broke the color line, revolutionized college sports, and transformed the NFL. Samuel Freedman brings to life the historic saga of the battle for the 1967 black-college championship between Grambling College and Florida A&M. Breaking the Line reaches its climax in a tense, excruciatingly close game between the two teams, recounted with suspense and drama. more...
Breaking the Silence - "Our Harsh Logic" - Tuesday, October 01, 2013 at 7:00pm-Reading/Book Signing- Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free and Open to the Public

Representatives of the group "Breaking the Silence" will discuss their 2012 book "Our Harsh Logic" which was just released in paperback. The New York Review of Books says..." Israeli soldiers speak out for the first time about the truth of the Palestinian occupation, in "one of the most important books on Israel/Palestine in this generation." Powerful and incontrovertible, Our Harsh Logic is a supremely significant contribution to one of the world's most vexed conflicts. more...
BOOK NOOK / Preschool Visitors Monday - WILL RESUME JUNE 2013 - Storytelling & Safari - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Lobby - Free & Open to the Public

On select Mondays, Jimmy Carter Library staff and volunteers will read from a selection of story books in our library and conduct an outdoor Garden Safari. Best for ages 2-5. more...