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Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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“Fresh Off the Boat” is one of Larry Smith’s successful Six-Word Memoirs . This one focuses on stories of immigration, identity, and coming to America. It could not be more timely.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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As a young student, John Crocker embarked on the adventure of a lifetime, spending eight months in the Gombe forest working with Jane Goodall. He followed families of wild chimpanzees from sunrise to sunset and learned the fundamental behavioral traits of these chimps as they raised their offspring. “Following Fifi” raises thought-provoking questions about the evolution of human behavior, the importance of patience and strong family bonds, and provides a greater understanding of what it means to be human.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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Though impoverished whites were never subjected to the daily violence and degrading humiliations of racial slavery, they did suffer tangible socio-economic consequences as a result of living in a slave society. ​ Historian Keri​ Leigh Merritt examines how these ‘masterless’ men and women threatened the existing Southern hierarchy and ultimately helped push Southern slaveholders toward secession and civil war.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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The new book by Julie Hedgepeth Williams traces an extraordinary tale concerning the founding of Southern literature. “Three Not-So-Ordinary Joes” focuses on the curious intersection of the lives of Joseph Addison, Joseph Addison (J.A.) Turner, and Joel Chandler Harris, and the circumstances leading to the publication of Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus stories, which achieved for him and his work national literary status.

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Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? That question has consumed historians, archeologists, and amateur sleuths for four hundred years. In “The Secret Token”, Andrew Lawler sets out on a quest to determine the fate of the settlers, finding fresh leads as he encounters a host of characters obsessed with resolving the enigma. In the course of his journey, Lawler examines how the Lost Colony came to haunt our national consciousness.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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LeRoy Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent and prominent slaveholding family in Macon, Georgia. As a young child he suffered a horrific leg and back injury that left him an
invalid. Educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty, the 12-year-old began keeping a journal in 1860—just before secession and Civil War tore the country and his world apart. He continued to write even as his health deteriorated until both the war and his life ended in 1865. His unique view of a waning age is published here for the first time in “The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865”.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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Drawing on his lifetime of experience as a diplomat, foreign policy expert, and State Department advisor, Rick Barton grapples with the fact that the U.S. is strategically positioned and morally obligated to defuse international conflicts, but often inadvertently escalates conflicts instead. Barton uses a mix of stories, history, and analysis for a transformative approach to foreign affairs and offers concrete and attainable solutions for the future. Co-sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Atlanta.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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P​hysicist and​ mathematician ​Chris Ferrie ​writes picture books about scientific concepts for babies and children. The books introduce subjects like rocket science, quantum physics and general relativity — with bright colors, simple shapes and thick board pages perfect for teething toddlers. The books make up the Baby University series — and each one begins with the same sentence and picture — This is a ball — and then expands on the titular concept.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Center Cecil B. Day Chapel

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This is the first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela’s life through the eyes of a child who was raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela’s life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders and humanitarians the world has ever known.

Tickets available at www.acappellabooks.com

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Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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Here, in a single volume, are the documents, speeches, and letters that have forged American history, now updated with new content such as Trump’s inaugural address. Accompanied by interpretations of their significance by journalist Alexander Heffner, this book includes important documents from American history. This edition has been expanded and updated to include a chapter on the Presidency of Donald Trump.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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Austin Channing Brown and LeCrae discuss Brown’s new book “I’M STILL HERE: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness”. In a time when nearly all institutions claim to value “diversity” in their mission statements, “I’m Still Here” is a powerful account of how and why our actions so often fall short of our words.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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For two years an aging Dr. Horace Tate—a former teacher, principal, and state senator—told Emory University professor Vanessa Siddle Walker about his clandestine travels on unpaved roads under the cover of night, meeting with other educators and with Dr. King, Georgia politicians, and even U.S. Presidents. Thus began Walker’s sixteen-year project to uncover the network of educators behind countless battles—in courtrooms, schools, and communities—for the education of black children. This is their story.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist clichés of romance and intrigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire, even where scholars claim there are no sources. Nur’s confident assertion of authority and talent is revelatory. In “Empress”, she finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

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In 1948 most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed
after Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South. Author Bill Steigerwald elevates Sprigle’s groundbreaking exposé to its rightful place among the seminal events of the early Civil Rights movement.