A year-long hostage crisis led to a presidency that would shape American politics for decades. But how much of what really ...

Amid the energy crisis of the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter hoped to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

There were many reasons that Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980. The Panama Canal Treaty wasn’t among them.

Funeral services for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday as the U.S. pays respect to the 39th president who passed ...

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 ...

Mr. Carter said his spiritual rebirth was an “evolutionary thing” rather than “a flash of light or a sudden vision of God ...

The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the ...

It is unusual for five current and former presidents to gather at the same event, but when it happens, it is often at a ...

As a member of the elite, informal club of U.S. presidents past and present, Jimmy Carter was uniquely positioned to do ...