Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months ...

In fact, in the fall of 1975, this was the title, Why Not the Best?, of a bestselling book by a new figure on the national ...

After a family funeral, the 39th president will be buried beside his wife at their home in Plains, Ga. President Biden, one ...

The late president has been praised for placing human rights at the forefront of U.S. policy, but his Cold War maneuvering ...

Maybe this is a lesson of the Carter administration, that true Christianity often finds itself drawn away from places of ...

A state funeral service for former President Jimmy Carter took place at the Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital ...

Ironically, in a speech about a “crisis of confidence” Carter himself came across as not confident. Although he did lay out a plan, the speech lacked any single phrase that anyone could look at ...

Today’s lawmakers hailed the 39th president, but their predecessors made his four years in office a constant battle and ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital, followed by a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown that ...

For almost 50 years, Jimmy Carter practiced the ideals that he preached from the pulpit in his small Baptist Church. His work with Habitat for Humanity, his efforts to eradicate the Guinea worm ...