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  • October, 2022-May, 2023


  • Exhibit: The Colors of Peace - President Carter’s Vision through the Art of Children

    Exhibit October 1, 2022-May 31, 2023

    Ongoing: October 1, 2022 - Extended through Memorial Day Weekend

    Bringing together 270+ artworks created by children from around the world, the exhibition is a celebration of the work of International Paint Pals and its peace-driven mission. Founded in 1995 as part of the Carter Center’s Atlanta Project, International Paint Pals started as a community arts initiative in south Atlanta. Since then, the organization has grown to work with over 200,000 children in more than 125 countries. Combining a simple pledge – “for the rest of my life, I promise to do everything I can to bring peace into our world” – and the creativity and imagination of children of all ages, the organization and the work it supports is a grassroots realization of one of former President Jimmy Carter’s initiatives, waging peace. This exhibition is also a call to action for visitors to be inspired by the artworks and to create and share their own.

    Image by third grade students at Atlanta International School, USA

  • March, 2023


  • The Civilian Conservation Corps: Civics at Work

    EducationEducation - Professional Development March 27, 2023-March 28, 2023

    Join the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum for this online teacher workshop that will provide resources for exploring how the development of a government "safety net" to protect Americans devastated by the Great Depression affected civic life. The Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) is a great example to use in teaching about how the government responds to crises. By creating opportunities for unemployed young men, the CCC was an innovation in government and a model for future government programs benefiting families, cities, and rural communities. Register today!

  • Hang The Moon

    March 31, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Friday, March 31 at 7:00 pm at the Carter Center Day Chapel

    Jeanette Walls, author of Hang The Moon (TICKETED EVENT)

    From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Tickets available at www.acappellabooks.com

  • April, 2023


  • The Wounded World

    April 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Thursday, April 13 at 7:00 pm at the Carter Museum Theater

    Chad Williams, author of The Wounded World

    The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I—and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. Drawing on a broad range of sources, most notably Du Bois’s unpublished manuscript and research materials, Williams tells a sweeping story of hope, betrayal, disillusionment, and transformation, setting into motion a fresh understanding of the life and mind of arguably the most significant scholar-activist in African American history. In uncovering what happened to Du Bois’s largely forgotten book.

  • The First Amendment and You! Teaching the Bill of Rights for Elementary Educators

    EducationEducation - Professional Development April 20, 2023-April 21, 2023

    Explore how to engage elementary students with primary sources from the holdings of the National Archives that demonstrate the power of student voices. During this interactive virtual workshop, you will connect with resources for teaching the Bill of Rights in the elementary school classroom, including interactive distance learning programs, graphic organizers, and DocsTeach activities. Register today!

  • May, 2023


  • His Majesty’s Airship

    May 2, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Tuesday, May 2nd at 7pm at the Carter Museum Theater

    S.C. Gwynne: His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

    From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a stunning historical tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian Princess at its heart.


     

  • Birchers

    May 4, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Thursday, May 4th at 7pm in the Carter Museum Theater

    Matthew Dallek: Birchers : How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

    At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Society’s extremism remade American conservatism. 


     

  • Unmasking the Klansman

    May 10, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Wednesday, May 10th at 7pm in the Carter Museum Theater

    Dan Carter: Unmasking the Klansman:The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter

    Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists. During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing radio broadcasts and leadership in the white Citizens' Council movement. Later  using the name “Forrest" Carter, he published three successful Western novels. Author Dan T. Carter uncovered “Forrest" Carter's true identity while researching his biography of Georgia Wallace and in a New York Times' op-ed he exposed Carter's deception.


     

  • King: A Life

    May 17, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Wednesday, May 17th at 7pm in the Carter Museum Theater

    Jonathan Eig:  King: A Life

    Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists.


     

  • Rogue Justice

    May 30, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Tuesday, May 30th at 7pm in The Carter Center's Cecil B. Day Chapel

    This is a Ticketed Event

    Stacey Abrams: Rogue Justice 

    The Carter Library and ACappella Books welcome Stacey Abrams to The Carter Center. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps returns with another riveting and intricately plotted thriller, in which a blackmailed federal judge, a secret court and a brazen murder may lead to an unprecedented national crisis. Tickets information here.


     

  • July, 2023


  • 2023 Civics for All of US Teacher Institute with the National Archives

    EducationEducation - Professional Development July 17, 2023-July 21, 2023

    Teachers working with grades 3–12 are invited to apply for the inaugural Civics for All of US Teacher Institute with the National Archives taking place in Washington, DC, from July 17–21, 2023. This five-day institute will include special tours and activities in the National Archives Museum, guest speakers, hands-on sessions featuring strategies for teaching civics with primary sources, and site visits to additional landmarks and museums in the nation’s capital. Each participant will receive a stipend to help cover travel and other expenses. Learn more here and apply by 03/31/23.

    The 2023 Civics for All of US Teacher Institute is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation.

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  • October, 2022-May, 2023


  • Exhibit: The Colors of Peace - President Carter’s Vision through the Art of Children

    Exhibit October 1, 2022-May 31, 2023

    Ongoing: October 1, 2022 - Extended through Memorial Day Weekend

    Bringing together 270+ artworks created by children from around the world, the exhibition is a celebration of the work of International Paint Pals and its peace-driven mission. Founded in 1995 as part of the Carter Center’s Atlanta Project, International Paint Pals started as a community arts initiative in south Atlanta. Since then, the organization has grown to work with over 200,000 children in more than 125 countries. Combining a simple pledge – “for the rest of my life, I promise to do everything I can to bring peace into our world” – and the creativity and imagination of children of all ages, the organization and the work it supports is a grassroots realization of one of former President Jimmy Carter’s initiatives, waging peace. This exhibition is also a call to action for visitors to be inspired by the artworks and to create and share their own.

    Image by third grade students at Atlanta International School, USA

  • March, 2023


  • The Civilian Conservation Corps: Civics at Work

    EducationEducation - Professional Development March 27, 2023-March 28, 2023

    Join the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum for this online teacher workshop that will provide resources for exploring how the development of a government "safety net" to protect Americans devastated by the Great Depression affected civic life. The Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) is a great example to use in teaching about how the government responds to crises. By creating opportunities for unemployed young men, the CCC was an innovation in government and a model for future government programs benefiting families, cities, and rural communities. Register today!

  • Hang The Moon

    March 31, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Friday, March 31 at 7:00 pm at the Carter Center Day Chapel

    Jeanette Walls, author of Hang The Moon (TICKETED EVENT)

    From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Tickets available at www.acappellabooks.com

  • April, 2023


  • The Wounded World

    April 13, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Thursday, April 13 at 7:00 pm at the Carter Museum Theater

    Chad Williams, author of The Wounded World

    The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I—and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. Drawing on a broad range of sources, most notably Du Bois’s unpublished manuscript and research materials, Williams tells a sweeping story of hope, betrayal, disillusionment, and transformation, setting into motion a fresh understanding of the life and mind of arguably the most significant scholar-activist in African American history. In uncovering what happened to Du Bois’s largely forgotten book.

  • The First Amendment and You! Teaching the Bill of Rights for Elementary Educators

    EducationEducation - Professional Development April 20, 2023-April 21, 2023

    Explore how to engage elementary students with primary sources from the holdings of the National Archives that demonstrate the power of student voices. During this interactive virtual workshop, you will connect with resources for teaching the Bill of Rights in the elementary school classroom, including interactive distance learning programs, graphic organizers, and DocsTeach activities. Register today!

  • May, 2023


  • His Majesty’s Airship

    May 2, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Tuesday, May 2nd at 7pm at the Carter Museum Theater

    S.C. Gwynne: His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

    From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a stunning historical tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian Princess at its heart.


     

  • Birchers

    May 4, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Thursday, May 4th at 7pm in the Carter Museum Theater

    Matthew Dallek: Birchers : How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

    At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Society’s extremism remade American conservatism. 


     

  • Unmasking the Klansman

    May 10, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Wednesday, May 10th at 7pm in the Carter Museum Theater

    Dan Carter: Unmasking the Klansman:The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter

    Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists. During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing radio broadcasts and leadership in the white Citizens' Council movement. Later  using the name “Forrest" Carter, he published three successful Western novels. Author Dan T. Carter uncovered “Forrest" Carter's true identity while researching his biography of Georgia Wallace and in a New York Times' op-ed he exposed Carter's deception.


     

  • King: A Life

    May 17, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Wednesday, May 17th at 7pm in the Carter Museum Theater

    Jonathan Eig:  King: A Life

    Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists.


     

  • Rogue Justice

    May 30, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    Tuesday, May 30th at 7pm in The Carter Center's Cecil B. Day Chapel

    This is a Ticketed Event

    Stacey Abrams: Rogue Justice 

    The Carter Library and ACappella Books welcome Stacey Abrams to The Carter Center. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps returns with another riveting and intricately plotted thriller, in which a blackmailed federal judge, a secret court and a brazen murder may lead to an unprecedented national crisis. Tickets information here.


     

  • July, 2023


  • 2023 Civics for All of US Teacher Institute with the National Archives

    EducationEducation - Professional Development July 17, 2023-July 21, 2023

    Teachers working with grades 3–12 are invited to apply for the inaugural Civics for All of US Teacher Institute with the National Archives taking place in Washington, DC, from July 17–21, 2023. This five-day institute will include special tours and activities in the National Archives Museum, guest speakers, hands-on sessions featuring strategies for teaching civics with primary sources, and site visits to additional landmarks and museums in the nation’s capital. Each participant will receive a stipend to help cover travel and other expenses. Learn more here and apply by 03/31/23.

    The 2023 Civics for All of US Teacher Institute is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation.

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