Special Events at the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum
The Museum of the Jimmy Carter Library provides a unique experience for the
visitor. Through displays of room settings, objects, documents, photographs,
audio, and video, visitors can acquire a close-up view of the modern American
Presidency.
Changing exhibits are drawn from the library and museum collections or are
based on themes relating to the presidency and American political history.
Many of these are traveling exhibitions from the Smithsonian Institution,
other Presidential Libraries, and other museums around the world.
If you would like to be notified about upcoming exhibits, book signings, lectures or presentations, click here.
Our current schedule is:
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FREEDOM'S SISTERS Exhibit
Saturday, July 24, 2010 - Sunday, October 3, 2010
Carter Presidential Library & Museum
Free with Paid Admission to the Museum
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"Freedom's Sisters" is a compelling new interactive exhibition of twenty extraordinary women and their contributions to the struggle
for equality and justice in America. Through their courageous actions, they changed the course of history. By defying their
circumstances, they became American heroes.
This exhibition was created by the Cincinnati Museum Center and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Travel Exhibition
Service. National tour has been made possible by the Ford Motor Company Fund.
["Freedom's Sisters"]
[Online Admission]
[Freedom's Sisters Essay Contest]
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POSTPONED
C-SPAN's Mobile Multi-Media Center
"Viewing & Demonstration"
Friday, September 3, 2010 from 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Circle of Flags
POSTPONED
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Because of a scheduling conflict, C-SPAN will NOT be bringing its educational bus to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library as originally
planned on Friday, September 3rd. They will try to re-schedule this visit to Atlanta.
We and C-SPAN apologize for change in plans.
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Mark Pendergrast
"Inside the Outbreaks"
Lecture/Book Signing
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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Journalist Mark Pendergrast turns his focus to a department of the Centers for Disease Control that investigates outbreaks of illness
around the globe. Formed in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service originated during the polio years and progressed through anthrax,
salmonella, rabies, smallpox, HIV, and Ebola to the present day. You name it, they identified it. Library Journal says "The zippy
manga cover and engrossing tales will pull in nonfiction readers not usually up for medical history."
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Ken Follett
"Fall of Giants"
Lecture/Book Signing
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 7:00pm
Carter Center Day Chapel
Tickets available through ACappella Books 404-681-5128.
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Ken Follett was twenty-seven when he wrote Eye of the Needle, an award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller.
After several more successful thrillers, he surprised everyone with The Pillars of the Earth, about the building of a cathedral
in the Middle Ages, which continues to captivate readers all over the world. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical
epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and
Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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Jonathan Schneer
"The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"
Lecture/Book Signing
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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With new material retrieved from historical archives, scholar and Georgia Tech Professor Jonathan Schneer recounts in dramatic detail
the public and private battles in the early 1900s for a small strip of land in the Middle East, battles that started when the governing
Ottoman Empire took Germany's side in World War I. The Balfour Declaration paints an indelible picture of how Arab nationalists, backed by
Britain, fought for their future as Zionists in England battled diplomatically for influence. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to either side or even
to most members of the British government, Prime Minister David Lloyd George was telling Turkey that she could keep her flag flying over the
disputed territory if only she would agree to a separate peace.
A book crucial to understanding the Middle East as it is today, The Balfour Declaration is a rich and remarkable achievement, a riveting volume
about the ancient faiths and timeless treacheries that continue to drive global events.
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Ari Berman
"Herding Donkeys"
Lecture/Book Signing
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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An intriguing behind-the-scenes look at how the Obama campaign built on the grassroots movement that had catapulted Dean to prominence
. . . Engaging and balanced-a stand-out book." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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President Jimmy Carter
"White House Diary"
Book Signing
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 5:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum
Free and Open to the Public
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Come meet President Carter and get a signed copy of White House Diary or any other book written by the 39th President. For the first time,
the daily diary kept by President Carter during his years in the White House is being made public. By carefully selecting the most illuminating
and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency.The book signing is free and open
to the public. President Carter will only sign BOOKS he has written (no photos or memorabilia). In order to give everyone a chance to get
their book signed, books cannot be personalized. If you can't attend the book signing, you can pre-order a signed book by calling the Carter
Museum Gift shop at 404-865-7131 no later than noon on October 12th. For more information, call 404-865-7109.
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Andrew Young & Kabir Sehgal
"Walk in My Shoes"
Lecture
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 6:00pm
Carter Center Day Chapel
Free and Open to the Public
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“This brilliant, courageous, and intelligent man has stood for right and for Civil Rights for all people. In this book, we can follow
the development of a young African American mind and the development of the movement which changed this country. He was brave, he was
loving, and he was there. Thank God he lived to tell about it.”—Maya Angelou
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Jim Zogby
"ARAB VOICES: What They are Saying to Us, and Why it Matters"
Lecture/Book Signing
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 7:00pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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The Arab World is a region that has been vastly misunderstood in the West. Arab Voices asks the questions, collects the answers,
and shares the results that will help us see Arabs clearly. The book will bring into stark relief the myths, assumptions, and biases
that hold us back from understanding this important people. Here, James Zogby debuts a brand new, comprehensive poll, bringing
numbers to life so that we can base policy and perception on the real world, rather than on a conjured reality.
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Salman Rushdie
"Luka and the Fire of Life" (on sale November 16)
Lecture/Book Signing
Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 6:30pm
Carter Center Day Chapel
See below for ticket information
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A lush contemporary fable for all ages in which a young boy must battle his way through a magical world in order to save his father.
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay, a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller
father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping
away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through The Magic World, encountering a slew of phantasmagorical obstacles along the way,
to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task. Lyrically crafted and filled with frolicking word-plays,
this is Salman Rushdie at his best.
Tickets to this lecture and book signing are available through A Cappella Books at (404) 681-5123.
Attendees will receive a signed copy of Luka and the Fire of Life with each ticket purchased.
Please visit A Cappella Books or call (404) 681-5123 for more information.
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Michele Norris
"The Grace of Silence"
Lecture/Book Signing
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
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In the wake of talk of a “post-racial America” upon the ascendance of Barack Obama as president of the United States, Michele Norris,
host of National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered", set out, through original reporting, to write a book about “the hidden conversation
on race” that is going on in this country. But along the way she unearthed painful family secrets—from her father’s shooting by the Birmingham
police within weeks of his discharge from service in World War II to her grandmother’s peddling pancake mix as an itinerant Aunt Jemima. In
what became an intensely personal and bracing journey, Norris traveled from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the
Deep South to explore “things left unsaid” by her family when she was growing up. Along the way she discovers how character is forged by both
repression and revelation. She learns how silence became a form of self-protection and a means of survival for her parents—strivers determined
to create a better life for their children at a time when America was beginning to experiment with racial equality—as it was for white Americans
who grew up enforcing strict segregation (sometimes through violence) but who now live in a world where integration is the norm.
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BOOK NOOK WILL RESUME IN JUNE 2011
Preschool Visitors - Book Nook and Garden Safari
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Lobby
Free and Open to the Public
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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. Story time will be offered in the museum lobby, at the colorful bean bag seating area by the Book Nook sign.
Themes we will include are the presidency, leadership, growing up, roles adults play, etc. Simple language and colorful illustrations are included in every book.
Colorful beanbag chairs are available to sit in.
Best for ages 3-7.
[ More Information ]
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****We record some of our author lectures at the Carter Library and, in partnership with public broadcasting atlanta, have them put
on the web. If you want to see any of our lectures or lectures at other facilities, go to the Atlanta Forum Network's website...
Here are some of our lectures...
Lectures
The Museum is open from 9 a.m.to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 4:45 p.m. on.
Sunday. Admission is $8.00 - Adults; $6.00 - Seniors (60+), Military, and students with IDs; Free -
Children (16 and under). Parking - Free. The Museum is closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's
Day. For more information, please call 404-865-7101.
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
441 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia 30307-1498
Telephone: (404) 865-7100
Fax: (404) 865-7102
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