Jimmy Carter redefined his legacy after his presidency. Other presidents, especially Hoover and Nixon, tried but failed to outrun or outwork their unhappy presidential legacies. Like John Quincy Adams ...

Plains, Ga., joins a collection of other small towns known for their part in presidential history. That can provide a steady ...

Jimmy Carter was riding high in the 1976 presidential campaign. Then he told Playboy magazine he'd “committed adultery in my ...

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to ... At that time, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt was at the beginning of his first term. Had Coolidge lived as long as Carter, he would have ...

By Peter Baker While new books on presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan pop up regularly on bookstore shelves, Jimmy Carter for a long time generated little ...

Historian Douglas Brinkley said Carter "raised the bar" on what was expected of presidents after leaving the White House and living a life of service.

John Harris is founding editor and global editor-in-chief of POLITICO. His Altitude column offers a regular perspective on politics in a moment of radical disruption. Let’s imagine that Franklin D.

The late President Jimmy Carter in particular decided to do something no other president has done before and it has now ...

Funeral services honoring the former president will span six days, include three cities and various stops significant to Carter, his family and his legacy.

Alan Lowe, executive director of the American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE) and the K-25 Atomic History Museum, as well as host of the podcast "American POTUS," writes about the late President ...

Everybody knows that Jimmy Carter was America’s last truly ... “Can anyone imagine Franklin D. Roosevelt talking this way?” fumed the historian and political activist Arthur Schlesinger ...