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Film Screening/Discussion follows screening

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

“In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America” is a feature documentary which includes interviews with President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter, many US Senators and Congressmen, as well as Irish leaders and British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and John Major. Inspired by Martin Luther King, rising from the riot-torn streets of Northern Ireland to enlist American Presidents from Carter to Clinton, this is the story of the extraordinary work of Nobel Prize-winner John Hume to harness and leverage US support to help to secure peace in Ireland.

U.S. Air Force Band of the West.- “Freedom Brass Concert”

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Lobby

Free and Open to the Public

Freedom Brass, the brass ensemble of the United States Air Force Band of the West, is stationed at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The ensemble is comprised of two trumpets, French horn, trombone, tuba, and percussion and is dedicated to presenting to its audiences the total spectrum of today’s music.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

“Presumed Criminal” is a startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of black youths from the 1930s to today. In this revealing book, Carl Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely.

Discussion

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

The Carter Library and Trees Atlanta present a discussion of Climate Change by Professor Brian Stone. Stone is Director of the Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Tech. His work on urbanization and climate change has been featured on CNN and National Public Radio, as well as, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

In his new book, “Race Against Time”, award-winning journalist Jerry Mitchell tells the amazing story of the two decades in which he doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. AJC investigative reporter, Ernie Suggs, will moderate a discussion with Mitchell and AJC editorial director Shawn Mcintosh.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

In her new book, founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Ingrid Newkirk, explores the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In “Animalkind”, Newkirk presents these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries: that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish “sing” underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino delivers a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans. Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper accounts, diaries, letters and official communications to create a gripping and compelling narrative that weaves together individual stories of hate and fear and brutality. This is a dramatic and definitive account of a remarkable but forgotten chapter of American history.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Distinguished Federal Appellate Judge and Editor Douglas H. Ginsburg visits the Jimmy Carter Library to discuss and sign copies of “Voices of Our Republic”, companion to the three-part upcoming PBS series, “A More or Less Perfect Union”. This inspiring coffee table book explores the most contentious issues in American history and today through the lens of the US Constitution. “Voices of Our Republic” features thoughts about the Constitution from personalities, dignitaries, and everyday heroes, including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Arthur Sulzberger, Alan Dershowitz, Sandra Day O’Connor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack Nicklaus, Ron Chernow, and others. These figures help answer the question of why the Constitution is so important and how it can be applied to political discourse today.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

In Craig Fehrman’s groundbreaking work of history, “Author in Chief”, the story of America’s presidents and their books opens a rich new window into presidential biography. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia”, the first presidential book to influence a campaign, and John Adams’s Autobiography, the first score-settling presidential memoir, “Author in Chief” draws on newly uncovered information—including never-before-published letters from Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan—to offer insights into the aspirations and inner lives of our nation’s presidents.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections. Taking into account how each of these threats has manifested in recent years, Rick Hasen offers concrete steps that need to be taken to restore trust in American elections before the democratic process is completely undermined.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump. Fred Kaplan takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories—based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents—of how America’s presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today.

Film Screening

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

This is a Ticketed Event

The Carter Library and Science for Georgia present a free screening of the documentary “Human Nature”. It is the story of the biggest tech revolution of the 21st Century. And it isn’t digital, it’s biological. A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bio-engineers who are testing its limits.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

An award-winning documentarian delivers the first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the “Green Book”, a travel guide for black motorists, broadening our understanding of black life, leisure, and struggles for equality in twentieth-century America.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Center’s Cecil B. Day Chapel

This Is A Ticketed Event

Best selling author Erik Larson presents a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the blitz in conversation with Virginia Prescott, host of GPB’s “On Second Thought”. Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless”. It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home; Chequers, his wartime retreat; Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Tickets available at Buy Tickets

Panel Discussion

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

The Carter Library and the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University host a panel discussion on “Reparations”.

Lecture/Book Signing

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Refugees who have fled famine and violence and resettled in the US too often are isolated, disconnected, living in despair. They typically have housing, food, and clothing. Yet they miss the large inter-connected families, the all-embracing social fabric, and the living culture in which they were raised. This book tells the unknown story of ordinary Americans who saw a need, created an ingenious solution, worked hard, asked nothing in return and found that their own lives were uplifted.