On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft.

Anyone born since the Sixties tends to associate the draft with that war and that decade, but it’s easy to forget that it was ...

Jimmy Carter was elected President in 1976 just one year after the U.S. was defeated in the American War in Vietnam and two years after President Nixon resigned the presidency. Carter seemed to offer ...

He had foreign policy stumbles and a career of service, but a 77-year marriage is what we should admire in the former president's life.

Rio Grande Valley-based writer and retired educator Samuel Freeman remembers President Carter as a champion of civil rights.

They take only two days off a year: Christmas and the day after. Freed from shop duties, their only wish is that I drive them ...

In death, as in life, former President Jimmy Carter can’t seem to get a fair shake ... LBJ, aided by Defense Secretary Robert ...

We continue to reflect on Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy with history professor Brad Simpson. Despite presiding over an ...

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be ...

The late president has been praised for placing human rights at the forefront of U.S. policy, but his Cold War maneuvering was marked by a familiar double standard.

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 ...