A series of recent historical studies have sought to sanitize the many failures of Carter's presidential term by arguing that ...

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In ...

For decades, Republicans have reveled in invoking Jimmy Carter’s name to deride Democrats as weak — mockery that has influenced the way Democrats present themselves to voters. By Adam ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 at the age of 100, has been laid to rest in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, following a state funeral held in Washington, D.C. “He was the ...

Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to dominate. By Richard Fausset On ...

Common conceptions of Carter are all wrong because they don’t acknowledge a crucial reality: he was a conservative.

In the early months of 1976, New Jersey's Democratic Party establishment did not roll out a welcome mat for Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. But a 27-year-old Ruth Puglisi — now ...

Jimmy Carter's first 'win' in Iowa was over a chicken dinner The first test of this new partnership came in October 1975 at ...

Buoyed by big and spirited crowds in the second day of campaigning in Texas, Jimmy Carter left Dallas and Fort Worth for California with the warning that only two days remained for voters to ...

Former President Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100 on Sunday. Library of Congress/Marion S. Trikosko/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Jimmy Carter could have been excused for believing that ...

It was a year that shattered a presidency. For Jimmy Carter, the 12 months that culminated in the 1980 general election were marked by economic turmoil, international humiliation and a political ...