We support the year-long National History Day competition as an exciting way for students to study and learn about historical issues, ideas, people and events at our locations around the country and online!

The National Archives is the nation’s record keeper. We hold billions of primary sources. Many can be incorporated into NHD research and projects. Visit the National Archives web page for National History Day to get started! Contact us if you need help.

Discussion/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

Free and Open to the Public

Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Taubman discusses and signs copies of his book “Gorbachev: His Life and Times”, the first comprehensive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

Free and Open to the Public

In “The World According to Fannie Davis”, Bridgett M. Davis shares a singular memoir that tells the story of one unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and the life they lead running the numbers in the Detroit of the 1960s and 1970s.

Davis will be in conversation with Atlanta’s own Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of “An American Marriage”.

Lecture

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

The Georgia Film Academy presents talent agencies and casting. The Georgia film industry has become #1 in the nation, in part due to the efforts of people like Rebecca Shrager (Pres of People Store talent agency) and Mark Fincannon, Owner of Fincannon and Associates Casting. You’ll find out what casting directors and talent scouts look for when preparing for a movie, commercial or other videos.

Reading/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

Irshad Manji, founder of the award-winning Moral Courage Project at the University of Southern California, New York Times bestselling author and the first winner of Oprah Winfrey’s “Chutzpah” prize for boldness, tackles the question of diversity. “Don’t Label Me” is a unique conversation about diversity, bigotry, and our common humanity. Manji will be in conversation with WABE’s Rose Scott.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

Free and Open to the Public

In a thrillingly alive, candid new work, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth, while examining the cultural forces—large and small—that led him and his family to this place.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Center Cecil B. Day Chapel

This is a Ticketed Event

Ticket details coming soon

“From the longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, a bold, dramatic work about the new responsibilities that leaders, businesses, and citizens share in American society today—as viewed through the intimate lens of one man’s life and work.

What do we owe one another? How do we channel our drive, ingenuity, even our pain, into something more meaningful than individual success? And what is our duty in the places where we live, work, and play?”

Discussion/6:30pm - 9:30pm

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

Free with advance reservation

Reservations available at https://www.freshtix.com/events/science-on-stage-the-forgotten-organ

The Carter Library and the Atlanta Science Festival present acclaimed writer Ed Yong and a panel of four nationally known playwrights discussing his book “I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life”. The book looks at the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes and was the inspiration for the playwrights 48 hour marathon of isolated furious writing to create four newly-formed plays all based on the book.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum

Free and Open to the Public

The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones’ prosecution of the last living bombers.

PLEASE NOTE: Although this event is FREE and open to the public, we anticipate that the demand will exceed available seating for this event. In order to reserve a seat, you can PURCHASE a ticket to the event at acappellabooks.com . The ticket includes a signed copy of the book.

Freshtix Events/Senator Doug Jones

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

More than forty global leaders and activists reflect on the state of the world, and the indivisibility of lasting peace and security. Taken together these global citizens articulate a persuasive and powerful argument in favor of a new way of looking at a world where we reframe security as a shared goal.

Lecture/Booksigning

Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater

Free and Open to the Public

In “The Drum Major Instinct”, Justin Rose draws on Martin Luther King Jr.’s sermons, political speeches, and writings to construct and conceptualize King’s politics as a unified theory.