Author and scholar Reza Aslan was a child in Iran when President Jimmy Carter made history with his 1977 visit with aims to ...

The late president was often criticized as too passive in engaging a new U.S. enemy. But archives from the time show his ...

Kathryn Koob of eastern Iowa and 51 other Americans were taken captive by militant Iranian students. They were held hostage ...

A hostage crisis in Iran, unrelenting inflation and a primary challenge from Ted Kennedy ensured Carter’s defeat in the 1980 ...

Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim ...

Jimmy Carter's critics turned his name into a synonym for weakness over the Iranian hostage crisis. But by any measure, he ...

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame ...

While Carter was celebrated for his part in the negotiations, Sadat was lambasted by his own countrymen. Carter said he ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, best known as a champion of international human rights both during and after his tenure as the ...

Many mourners shared old memories and some cried Sunday as they passed through Atlanta's Carter Presidential Center, where Jimmy Carter lies in repose until Tuesday.

Did the thirty-ninth president’s domestic and foreign policy successes outweigh his more well-publicized failures?

Former President Jimmy Carter led the US through a tumultuous time of conflict in the Middle East, gas shortages, Cold War ...