Only one human disease, smallpox, has ever been eradicated. But soon a second infection will join the list: Guinea worm disease, a painful and debilitating condition caused by the Guinea worm—known to many as the “fiery serpent”. There is no medicine to cure Guinea worm disease and no vaccine to prevent it. Yet it can be stopped. This exhibition shows the heroic efforts throughout history to eradicate, eliminate, and control disease, including the Carter Center-led campaign to wipe out Guinea worm.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

In “The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas”, author Adrian Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who played remarkable roles in unforgettable events in the nation’s history.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Whether you are struggling to communicate with your kid’s teacher at school, an employee at work, or the people you love the most—talk show host Celeste Headlee offers smart strategies to help us all have conversations that matter.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Center’s Cecil B. Day Chapel

Free and Open to the Public

Jimmy Webb’s words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. He’s the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, and his chart-topping career has, so far, lasted fifty years, most recently with a Kanye West rap hit and a new classical nocturne.

Now, in his first memoir, Webb delivers a snapshot of his life from 1955 to 1970, from simple and sere Oklahoma to fast and fantastical Los Angeles, from the crucible of his family to the top of his longed-for profession.

Screening/Discussion

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

The first woman to be elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. This film examines the legacy of the formidable Wilma Mankiller, who defied all odds to become one of the most influential and successful leaders in the United States, serving three terms as the Cherokee Nation’s Principal Chief. A discussion with the film’s producer will follow the screening.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

This is the fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore—the largest, grandest residence ever built in the United States.The story of Biltmore spans World Wars, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and generations of the famous Vanderbilt family, and features a captivating cast of real-life characters. “The Last Castle” is the unique American story of how the largest house in America flourished, faltered, and ultimately endured to this day.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Center’s Cecil B. Day Chapel

Free and Open to the Public

In “What the Qur’an Meant”, Garry Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur’an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur’an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war?

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

“Shanghai Faithful” is both a touching family memoir and a chronicle of the astonishing spread of Christianity in China. It is the story of five generations of the Lin family—buffeted by history’s crosscurrents and personal strife.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

This is a powerful work of literary military history from the New York Times bestselling author of “In Harm’s Way” and “Horse Soldiers”. It is the harrowing, redemptive, and utterly unforgettable account of an American army reconnaissance platoon’s fight for survival during the Vietnam War—whose searing experiences reverberate today among the millions of American families touched by this war.

Screening/Discussion

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

This is a firsthand view of the first nine days of the rapidly changing uprising in Aleppo, from the observations recorded by the renowned Syrian photographer Issa Touma from his window in the old city. A discussion will follow the screening, in partnership with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Rothstein explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation. Rather, “The Color of Law” incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation―the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments―that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

​Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Strange, fascinating, and sobering, “Goat Castle”, tells the story of this local feud, killing, investigation, and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

A page-turner in the most exquisite sense, this book of over 160 portraits expresses the emotive beauty and grace of the human face. Documentary photographer Alison Wright traveled to every continent to capture the diversity of the human tribe, from toddlers to those who’ve lived a lifetime, and from South America to Africa, Asia, and points in between.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

This is a story about an accidental activist. “A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice”. He started out his adult life as the Wall Street maverick whose instincts led him to Russia just after the breakup of the Soviet Union, where he made his fortune. Along the way he exposed corruption, and when he did, he barely escaped with his life. His Russian lawyer wasn’t so lucky: he ended up in jail, where he was tortured to death. That changed Browder forever.