Remembering
Jimmy Carter
1924-2024

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Christie’s to auction items from Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s collection

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Remembering Jimmy Carter a year after his death

Atlanta’s Carter Center plowing ahead despite federal foreign aid cuts

Forbidden pistachios and a very long project: Jimmy Carter aides share tales

A 5-year-old wanted a Jimmy Carter birthday party. His mom delivers.

On Jimmy Carter’s 101st birthday, a ‘forever’ stamp and a worm in a jar

UPDATE

On Jimmy Carter birthdate, gravesite is portrait of peace, shutdown fallout

Landmarks

As Carter Center turns 40, a growing focus on U.S. elections

Carter Presidential Center is home to archives and activism

Politically Georgia podcast: An intimate visit with the people of Plains

What You Need to Know about Jimmy Carter

Guide to visiting Jimmy Carter Historical Park in Plains, Georgia

About Maranatha Baptist Church, site of Georgia funeral for Jimmy Carter

Top from our archives

In Jimmy Carter’s Plains Ga., Christmas tree tradition lives on

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s long and (mostly) happy marriage

Podcast: A 2019 conversation with President Jimmy Carter

Former President Jimmy Carter turning into comic book hero

Ninety-nine ways to celebrate Jimmy Carter

Carters attend Plains Peanut Festival in style with ’46 RAG

The Class of ‘63

Video: Mike Luckovich cartoon marks Carters’ 75th wedding anniversary

Carters celebrated at 75th wedding anniversary bash in Plains

Carter cancer signs inspire others, become hot item

Meeting 'Mr. Jimmy'

Atlantans, regular folks share their favorite stories

Readers of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shared stories of where they met former President Jimmy Carter over the years, through photos and in their own words.

Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter shakes hands with the crowd in Warm Spring, Ga. at the beginning of his presidential campaign tour on Sept. 6, 1976.
MANDATORY CREDIT: BILLY DOWNS / THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

At college. At the ballpark. At his library. Readers have met the former Georgia governor everywhere.

After the 39th president announced he had liver cancer in 2015, the public shared their stories of meeting Carter

Jimmy Carter, one of us

A chance encourter, 16 years ago, underscores what so many of us know: Jimmy Carter, perhaps more than any other chief executive in this and the previous century, is the peopl

Postage stamp honoring Jimmy Carter unveiled

The Forever stamp honoring former President Jimmy Carter will be available beginning in Atlanta on Oct. 1, which would've been Carter's 101st birthday.

OPINION

The untold story of Amy Carter’s White House nanny, Mary Prince

Mary Prince met President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter 54 years ago as a wrongly convicted murderer. She talks about becoming a beloved nanny, caregiver and member of the family.

This weekend: Celebrating Jimmy Carter’s mission, not mourning his loss

The Carter Center, the large Atlanta-based nonprofit founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, holds its first annual retreat since the former president died.

Delta donates $400K to renovate King National Historical Park