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 |
MUSEUM DOCENT-Share the American Presidency Experience!!!!! - Become part of a vibrant team of individuals as a museum tour guide at the Jimmy Carter Library! Volunteers are being recruited to conduct guided tours for students and adults.
[ Museum Docents ]1940 CENSUS - The 1940 census records were released by the US National Archives on April 2, 2012, and brought online through a partnership with Archives.com. This website allows you full access to the 1940 census images, in addition to 1940 census maps and descriptions.
[ 1940 CENSUS WEBSITE ]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 ]NOW OPEN-NEW EXHIBIT!!! "George Washington Carver" - Saturday, January 14, 2012 through Sunday, May 27, 2012 - Born into slavery, George Washington Carver became a trail-blazing scientist whose experiments with plants laid the groundwork for today’s research on plant-based fuels, medicines, and everyday products. A true humanitarian, his extraordinary persistence and compassion nourished a lifelong mission to bring practical knowledge to those in need. "Download our GPS-correlated Carver curriculum here:
[ GWC Educator's Guide ]PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES DEBUT NEW PASSPORT PROGRAM!!! - The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and the National Archives announce a new visitor program, “Passport to Presidential Libraries,” that gives visitors an opportunity to purchase a special keepsake booklet they can take with them on their travels to Presidential Libraries across the nation.
[ Passport to Presidential Libraries ]NEW 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 ]THE CARTER CHRONICLE - NEW - Volume 2, Issue 2 of "The Carter Chronicle," the quarterly newsletter of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum is now available online.
[ THE CARTER CHRONICLE ]
| Exhibits & Events |
- "George Washington Carver" - Exhibit - Saturday, January 14, 2012 - May 27, 2012 - Carter Presidential Library & Museum - Free with Paid Admission to Museum
Born into slavery, George Washington Carver became a trail-blazing scientist whose experiments with plants laid the groundwork for today’s research on plant-based fuels, medicines, and everyday products. A true humanitarian, his extraordinary persistence and compassion nourished a lifelong mission to bring practical knowledge to those in need. Download our GPS-correlated Carver curriculum here: GWC Educator's Guide" more...
- Robert Leleux - "The Living End: A Memoir About Forgetting and Forgiving" - Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 7:00pm Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater- Free & Open to the Public
The Living End is a tribute to an unforgettable woman, and a testimony to the way a disease can awaken an urgent desire for love and forgiveness. When Robert Leleux’s grandmother JoAnn, began exhibiting signs of Alzheimer’s, she’d been estranged from her daughter, Robert’s mother Jessica, for decades. As her disease progressed, JoAnn lost most of her memories, but she also forgot her old wounds and anger. She became a happy, gentler person who was finally able to reach out to her daughter, an unexpected blessing that gave a divided family a second chance. Co-sponsored by Bound To Be Read Books. more...
- Jonathan Odell - "The Healing" - Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing -Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
The pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won’t soon forget. Jonathan Odell is the author of the acclaimed novel The View from Delphi, which deals with the struggle for equality in pre-civil rights Mississippi, his home state. His short stories and essays have appeared in numerous collections. more...
- Steve Coll - "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" - Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll goes deep inside ExxonMobil Corp, the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States. In Private Empire, Steve Coll investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of its power. In Washington, ExxonMobil spends more money lobbying Congress and the White House than any other corporation. more...
- Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy - "The Presidents Club" - Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
Journalists and presidential historians Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy unravel the secret compacts, the shared scars, and the private cease-fires from Hoover to Obama. The Presidents Club" will change the way we think about the presidency, for the club itself is an instrument of presidential power. more...
- Samuel Popkin- "The Candidate" - Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
Based on detailed analyses of the winners - and losers - of the last 60 years of presidential campaigns, Samuel Popkin explains how challengers get to the White House, incumbents stay there for a second term and successors hold power for their party. A vision for the future and the audacity to run are only the first steps; presidential hopefuls can survive the most grueling show on earth only if they understand the critical factors that Popkin reveals in "The Candidate". more...
- Ambassador Henry Crumpton - "The Art of Intelligence" - Friday, June 1, 2012 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and their secret missions. For a crucial period, Crumpton led the CIA's global covert operations against America's terrorist enemies, including al Qaeda. more...
- Lee Ellis - "Leading With Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton" - Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 7:00pm - Author Lecture / Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater- Free & Open to the Public
Lee Ellis served as an Air Force fighter pilot flying fifty-three combat missions over North Vietnam. In 1967, he was shot down and held as a POW for more than five years in Hanoi and surrounding camps. Ellis shares his recollections from this harrowing time, and at the end of each chapter, presents the lessons he’s learned —often extensive, but never trite. more...
- Julie Hedgepeth Williams - "A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells Story of Survival" - Monday, June 11, 2012 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
Author Julie Williams draws on first-person accounts from her great-Uncle Albert and extensive research to tell the fascinating story of the young family who were saved by a combination of luck, pluck, Albert's outgoing nature, Sylvia's illness, and Alden's helplessness. Their detailed story of the short life on the Titanic has never been fully told in Titanic literature. But the trip on the Titanic was only one part of a bigger nightmare for the Caldwells. more...
- Jen Marlowe - "The Hour of Sunlight" - Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
Marked by honesty and compassion for Palestinians and Israelis alike, The Hour of Sunlight illuminates the Palestinian experience through the story of one man’s struggle for peace. It tells the story of Sami Al Jundi. As a teenager in Palestine, Sami al Jundi had one ambition: overthrowing Israeli occupation. With two friends, he began to build a bomb to use against the police. But when it exploded prematurely, killing one of his friends, al Jundi was caught and sentenced to ten years in prison. It was in an Israeli jail that his unlikely transformation began. more...
- Thom Reilly - "Rethinking Public Sector Compensation: What Ever Happened to the Public Interest?" - Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 7:00pm - Author Lecture - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater- Free & Open to the Public
Thom Reilly looks at our public sector workforce and the way government provides services. It is a talk straight from the headlines as state governments and state workers battle over bargaining. Chester A. Newland, the initial director of the LBJ Library says "Thom Reilly’s penetrating study is both practically plainspoken and broadly and deeply informed academically. more...
- Leonard Pitts - "Freeman" - Monday, June 25, 2012 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn South. Like Cold Mountain, Freeman illuminates the times and places it describes from a fresh perspective, with stunning results. It has the potential to become a classic addition to the literature dealing with this period. more...
- John Mahama, the Vice President of Ghana- "My First Coup d'Etat" - Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 7:00pm - Reading/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public
John Dramani Mahama is a writer, historian, journalist, former member of Parliament and minister of state, and sitting vice president of the Republic of Ghana. My First Coup d’Etat offers a look at the country that has long been considered Africa’s success story. This is a one-of-a-kind book: Mahama’s is a rare literary voice from a political leader, and his personal stories work on many levels—as fables, as history, as cultural and political analyses, and, of course, as the memoir of a young man who, unbeknownst to him or anyone else, would grow up to be vice president of his nation. more...
- BOOK NOOK / Preschool Visitors Monday - WILL RESUME JUNE 2012 - 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...
