But his state funeral, per tradition, was "replete with the exalted trappings of a presidential send-off." The image of the ...

Leading a cohort of next-generation Southern leaders in both parties, Carter grafted the region back on the national map by repudiating Jim Crow, firmly and finally extinguishing George Wallace as a ...

Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who had the lowest approval ratings of a post-war U.S. president except for Donald ...

Carter’s big break came in Florida on March 9, 1976, when he soundly defeated segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace in a ...

Four years ago, January 6 joined 9/11 and December 7, 1941, as one of the darkest days in our history. The next date to watch ...

Jimmy Carter was a former one-term governor from Georgia, almost unknown nationally, when he broke through in Iowa and New ...

Free speech and national security can often conflict. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln prevented newspapers from ...

The passing of Jimmy Carter has been duly noted in ubiquitous remembrances and commentaries on his four-year presidency, 1977 ...

But he could also be disarmingly candid, in a political culture that almost never rewards that trait (who can forget his confession to Playboy magazine ... defeated, Gerald Ford, and with John ...

United Press International, the news wire service, had moved me from Tallahassee to Atlanta to cover the last year ... nomination away from President Gerald Ford. Carter was critical of Ford ...

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling ...

This story originally appeared on Georgia Recorder. Jimmy Carter would chart a new course for the state at the start of his ...