Colors of Peace Family Day
Saturday, Oct. 1, 12:00 - 4:00 pm
Exhibition Opening and President Carter’s 98th birthday!

Lobby Activities are Free. Museum Admission on Oct. 1: Children 16 and under FREE. Everyone else $0.98 in honor of President Carter's 98th birthday.

Join us on Saturday, October 1 to celebrate the opening of the exhibition “The Colors of Peace: President Carter’s Vision Through the Art of Children,” create peace-themed art works to hang in the show, send a birthday card to President Carter, and help us cover the windows and sidewalks with your visions of peace.

Activities:
Create your own work to add to the exhibit
Create a birthday card for President Carter
Sidewalk chalk, Window painting
Balloon twisting, Face painting
Scavenger Hunt, Music

Details on Facebook and Eventbrite

Image by third grade students at Atlanta International School, USA

Ongoing: October 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023

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

Hero of Two Worlds by Mike Duncan
Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Carter Museum Theater

From the bestselling author of “The Storm Before the Storm” and host of the “Revolutions” podcast comes the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality. The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and A Cappella Books welcome author Mike Duncan for a discussion on his book, “Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution,” on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 7 PM.  

This event is free and open to the public. Capacity is limited. Register with Eventbrite to reserve your seat

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 7:00 pm

Location: Carter Museum Theater

Activity: Author lecture/book signing

In American Sirens, acclaimed journalist and paramedic Kevin Hazzard tells the extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world. It is the story of how a group of young, undereducated Black men forged a new frontier of healthcare. They battled racism—from the community, the police, and the government. Their job was grueling, the rules made up as they went along, their mandate nearly impossible—and yet despite the long odds and fierce opposition, they succeeded spectacularly. Free and open to the public, in partnership with ACappella Books.

Event: "Cocktails & Civics:A Toast to Jimmy Carter’s 98 Years"

Date: Thursday, October 6

Time: 6:30 pm

Location: Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum

Join the Carter Presidential Library & Museum, Made By Us, and Atlanta History Center for a fun-filled night as we celebrate our 39th President’s 98th birthday in style. While President Carter will not be in attendance, we’ll provide postcards and the opportunity to record video messages to send our warmest birthday wishes to President Carter down in Plains, GA after the event. Guests are also invited to participate in a fun game of civics-themed trivia to mark the occasion.  This event is free, with drinks and food available for purchase. Details and registration HERE

Motion Pictures Resources Webinar

Want to learn about Motion Pictures resources at the National Archives and see clips of some of our fantastic films? Join us for our FREE interactive webinar The Film(ed) Frontier. Anyone involved in National History Day - teachers, students, or parents - is welcome to register and attend! The webinar will be based on our article in the 2023 national theme book .

Thursday, October 13, 2022, 7:00 p.m. ET/4:00 p.m. PT

• Register here for the motion picture webinar

Presidential Library and National Archives Resources Webinars

There will be two parts to this virtual webinar:
Part I: October 26, -- 7:00 p.m. ET/4:00 p.m. PT
Includes speakers from the FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and Clinton Presidential Libraries and the National Archives

Part II: November 2, 7:00 p.m. ET /4:00 p.m. PT
Includes speakers from the LBJ, Nixon, Ford and Carter Presidential Libraries and the National Archives

• Register here for the Presidential Library webinars

Tell It True by John Pruitt
Monday, October 10, 2022 at 7:00 pm
Carter Museum Theater

Tell It True is veteran journalist John Pruitt's historical novel  based on his experiences over fifty years as a television news reporter and anchor in Atlanta, Georgia. 

An African American serviceman is gunned down on a rural Georgia road in July 1964. This shocking murder ensnares a wide range of characters including the journalists who cover it, the lawmen who must solve it, the civil rights leaders who capitalize upon it, the politicians who exploit it, and the Atlanta magnate who fears its impact on the New South image he desperately wants to protect. TV news cameraman Gil Matthews and AP reporter Mindy Williams team up to follow the twists and turns of the murder investigation as rural, state, and federal lawmen clash, a civil rights leader fends off a black power challenger, and voters take sides in a governor's race pitting virulent racist Roscoe Pike against moderate underdog Harrison Parker.  

"There were many momentous stories I covered during my career," says Pruitt, "but none equaled the magnitude of the struggles for racial equality in the South."

Afternoons with Harper Lee
Thursday, Oct 20, 2022 at 7:00 pm
Carter Museum Theater

Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch somewhere in the world and swapping life stories. Dr. Wayne Flynt got the opportunity to do just that with Nelle Harper Lee. In a friendship that blossomed over a dozen years starting when Lee relocated back to Alabama after having a stroke, Flynt and his wife Dartie became regular visitors at the assisted living facility that was Lee’s new home. And there the conversation began. It began where it always begins with Southern storytellers, with an invitation to “Come in, sit down, and stay a while."
The hours spent visiting, in intimate closeness, are still cherished by Wayne Flynt. They yielded revelations large and small, which have been shaped into Afternoons with Harper Lee. Part memoir, part biography, this book offers a unique window into the life and mind and preoccupations of one of America’s best-loved writers.

Free and Open to the Public.

Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health by Dr. Tom Insel
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 7:00 pm
Carter Museum Theater

The Carter Center Mental Health program, in partnership with the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and ACappella Books, welcomes psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Tom Insel for a discussion of his book. "In this essential book, one of our most visionary leaders reveals that the solution demands a holistic approach. By reframing the mental health crisis as an opportunity for social justice, hopefully Tom Insel’s ideas will bring about long-needed progress toward a more inclusive, more compassionate, and healthier society. Healing is for every family dealing with a mental health issue, which today means nearly every family in the United States.” —Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.

Free and Open to the Public.