Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

Welcome to the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is part of the Presidential Library system administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, a Federal government agency.

News & Announcements

COMING SOON - NEW EXHIBIT!!! "Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection" - Saturday, September 3, 2011 - Sunday, November 27, 2011 - �Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection� features more than 200 pins, many of which Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wore to communicate messages during her diplomatic tenure. The exhibit examines the collection for its historical significance and the expressive power of jewelry and its ability to communicate through a style and language of its own.
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AN EVENING FOR EDUCATORS - Featuring Madeleine Albright - Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 5:00pm - 7:00pm - The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library Invites Current Georgia Educators to a Private Reception & Book Signing for Educators. Learn about Resources & Programming for 2011-2012 School Year. Brief comments and Book Signing with Sec. Albright. Free Admission but Reservations are required. DEADLINE FOR RESERVATIONS AUGUST, 29, 2011.
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PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES DEBUT NEW PASSPORT PROGRAM!!! - The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and the National Archives announce a new visitor program, �Passport to Presidential Libraries,� that gives visitors an opportunity to purchase a special keepsake booklet they can take with them on their travels to Presidential Libraries across the nation.
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NEW FIELD TRIP SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM!!!! - The Jimmy Carter Library & Museum and the Coca-Cola Foundation has generously established funding for the Carter Library to provide transportation funds for Georgia schools to use when bringing students to our newly-renovated museum for educational activities.
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THE CARTER CHRONICLE - NEW - Volume 1, Issue 4 of "The Carter Chronicle," the quarterly newsletter of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum is now available on line.
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***Please see below for more information on the Upcoming Events***

Exhibits & Events

Robert Olen Butler- "A Small Hotel" - Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

Robert Olen Butler is the author of 12 novels and six short story collections, including "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain", which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. "Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, A Small Hotel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have decided to separate after twenty-four years of marriage." (Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) more...
Madeleine Albright- "Read My Pins" - Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 5:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Cecil B. Day Chapel - Free & Open to the Public

"Read My Pins" is a story and celebration of how one woman�s jewelry collection was used to make diplomatic history. Exploring the use of the pin or brooch as a means of personal and diplomatic expression and featuring a gallery of fascinating photographs, this unique, intimate, and revealing biography offers a whole new side of Secretary Albright, one of our most beloved public servants. Pre-signed copies of "Read My Pins" will be available for purchase. more...
Former Senator Bob Graham - "Keys to the Kingdom" - Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 2:00pm- Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

�In a fictional 2008, retired U.S. Senator John Billington, Graham's alter ego, publishes a provocative opinion piece in the New York Times suggesting that the Saudis may be working on a nuclear weapon. Billington reaches out to brilliant, two-fisted Cuban-American Tony Ramos, an analyst at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, to pursue his thesis". Publishers Weekly more...
Jennifer McCoy - "International Mediation in Venezuela" - Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 5:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

International Mediation in Venezuela analyzes the effort of the Carter Center and the broader international community to prevent violent conflict, to reconcile a deeply divided society, and to preserve democratic processes. Former President Jimmy Carter will briefly join McCoy for a short discussion of his role in facilitating a dialogue between the Venezuelan government and its opposition. more...
AUTHOR HAD TO CANCEL - Hugh Ambrose - "The Pacific" - Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

Publishers Weekly says "In this follow-up to his late father's Band of Brothers, which tracked a single army unit from Georgia to the battlefields of Europe, historian Hugh Ambrose turns his attention to the Pacific theater, following four individual marines and one Naval Aviator through their time in combat....Ambrose also reveals how, at the time, many marines expressed contempt for Gen. MacArthur, receiving accolades back home while they made halting, bloody progress across such islands as Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Doing for the war against Japan what Band of Brothers did for the war against Germany, Ambrose's history effectively immerses readers in the Good War's second front". more...
Celebrate Constitution Day - Friday, September 16, 2011 / Times to choose from -10:00am; 11:30am; 1:00pm - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

Cathy Kaemmerlen�s "Let�s Keep It A Secret" � A �behind the scenes� account of the writing of the US Constitution. more...
Joe McCartin - "Collision Course" - Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

Co-sponsored by the Georgia State University Library, the Carter Library welcomes Joe McCartin for a discussion of his new book "Collision Course". E.J. Dionne, syndicated columnist and author of "Why Americans Hate Politics" says "The Air Traffic Controllers strike of 1981 was one of the most important struggles in American history, and by breaking the union, Ronald Reagan dealt a blow to organized labor from which it has still not recovered". more...
William Kennedy - "Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes" - Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

�Here's an unbeatable setup. Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur Fellow Kennedy, who gave us the great "Albany Cycle," puts journalist Daniel Quinn (not of his Quinn's Book) in the Floridita bar in 1957 Havana, where he meets Ernest Hemingway. It's the start of something good: a novel that runs from Cuba to race riots in Albany as Robert Kennedy's assassination looms. Kennedy's first in a decade should be pretty amazing.� - Library Journal more...
Candice Millard- "Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President" - Monday, October 17, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, "Destiny of the Republic" will stand alongside "The Devil in the White City" and "The Professor and the Madman" as a classic of narrative history. more...
Twesigye Kaguri - "A School For My Village" - Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/ Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

Founder of the Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project -"A School For My Village" is the stirring story behind The Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project. Weaving together tales from his youth with the enormously inspiring account of the remarkable challenges and triumphs of the school, Kaguri shows how someone with a modest idea is capable of monumental results. more...
Jeff Frieden - "Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery" - Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

�You will not read a better political-economic synthesis of America�s financial crisis than this book.� � Dani Rodrik, author of The Globalization Paradox more...
Anne Emanuel - "Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution" - Wednesday, November 2, 2011, Reception at 6:00pm/Lecture at 6:45pm � Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater � Free & Open to the Public

This is the first�and the only authorized�biography of Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897�1996), the judge who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution. more...
Simon Winchester - "Atlantic" - Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

�History is rarely as charming and entertaining as when it�s told by Simon Winchester. There are fabulous set pieces in �Atlantic� � on piracy, on packet ships, on trans-Atlantic cables and the speeding up of information, on codfish, on sea bass, on plankton.� - New York Times more...
Peter Eichstaedt - "Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place" - Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

"As Africa editor for the Institute of War and Peace in Reporting in The Hague, he traveled extensively in Africa to cover war crimes and trials. Going behind the headlines and deep into the brutal world of the Congo, this exposé examines why eastern Congo is the most dangerous place on the planet." - Publishers Weekly more...
Harry Belafonte - "My Song: A Memoir" - Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Cecil B. Day Chapel - TICKETS REQUIRED. DETAILS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON

Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Now, at last, this extraordinary icon tells us about it all�his poverty-ridden childhood in Harlem and Jamaica; his meteoric rise to become one of the world�s most popular singers, breaking down racial barriers that no one had broken before, achieving equal popularity with white and black audiences; his lifelong, passionate involvement at the heart of the civil rights movement and countless other political and social causes. more...
Tom Brokaw - "The Time of Our Lives" - Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Cecil B. Day Chapel - TICKETS REQUIRED. DETAILS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON

Tom Brokaw is the author of five best sellers: "The Greatest Generation", "The Greatest Generation Speaks", "An Album of Memories", "A Long Way from Home", and "BOOM!". He continues to report for NBC News, producing long-form documentaries and providing expertise during breaking news events. Brokaw has won every major award in broadcast journalism, including two DuPonts, a Peabody Award, and several Emmys. more...
Phil Grose - "Looking for Utopia: The Life and Times of John C. West" - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:00pm - Lecture/Book Signing - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater - Free & Open to the Public

"Looking for Utopia: The Life and Times of John C. West" follows West from his years as SC�s governor to his subsequent service as President Carter�s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. more...
BOOK NOOK / Preschool Visitors Monday - WILL RESUME JUNE 2012 - Storytelling & Safari - Carter Presidential Library & Museum Lobby - Free & Open to the Public

On select Mondays, Jimmy Carter Library staff and volunteers will read from a selection of story books in our library and conduct an outdoor Garden Safari. Best for ages 2-5. more...