Amid the energy crisis of the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter hoped to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

Jimmy Carter's melancholy fate was to be a largely derivative figure: He was a reaction against his elected predecessor and ...

A year-long hostage crisis led to a presidency that would shape American politics for decades. But how much of what really ...

Roth tax cut on his desk and threatened veto. Congress buckled, but he still signed the first tax-rate cut of the coming ...

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

Jimmy Carter's use of race-baiting attacks on Ronald Reagan during the 1980 election is a stain on his legacy.

Visitors to the center, which features a rich collection of historic documents, artifacts and other items documenting ...

President Jimmy Carter didn't just use NASCAR as a campaign stop. He was a fan. And the last national Democrat to be truly ...

Carter died at his hometown in Georgia. He was 100, making him the longest-living former president and the only one to reach ...

Looking back, Americans today view former President Jimmy Carter more positively than they did at the end of tenure in office ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia. His death comes more than a year after the former ...

The Georgia peanut farmer turned politician won Texas’ 26 electoral votes in 1976 but couldn’t repeat the feat four years ...