Jimmy Carter Presidential Library

We are proud to be a #BlueStarMuseum in 2025! Active military personnel and their families can visit the Carter Library for free from May 17 (Armed Forces Day) through September 1 (Labor Day). We appreciate your service and can’t wait for you to visit.

We’re sorry, but we will not be able to post updates to our social media channels during the government shutdown. All National Archives events–virtual or in person–are canceled until further notice. We will be unable to reply to messages or emails until the government reopens.

🎉🎉Congratulations to Estrella and Julio!! 🎉🎉 Starting at the @CarterLibrary, the duo zigzagged across the country visiting 13 NARA Presidential Libraries in just seven years and finished the journey with a trip to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids!

Tomorrow, on what would have been Jimmy Carter’s 101st birthday, we hope you take to heart that “the bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices,” as he stated during his Nobel Peace Prize lecture in 2002. Img: nlc20379.24, 11/3/80

On 8/5/78, Pres. Carter visited the Grower’s Cooperative Warehouse in Wilson, where they were auctioning dried tobacco plants. #DYK, as of 2023, North Carolina is the biggest exporter of tobacco plants in the US? Image: nlc06867.16 #NationalNorthCarolinaDay #CartersAcrossAmerica

On December 2, 1980, President Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), which preserved over 100 millions acres of land in Alaska, the largest single expansion of protected lands and waters in U.S. history. Happy #NationalPublicLandsDay!

Join us online on Nov. 5 at 7pm as we discuss The Beast in the Clouds. Author Nathalia Holt will be joining us for the discussion and a Q&A! You can purchase a copy through this month's bookseller partner, Virginia-Highland Books. Register on our website for a discount code.

Join us Saturday for our Family Day honoring President Carter’s legacy of energy and sustainability. Thanks to our partners at @TreesAtlanta @pahlga and Sunpath Solar for partnering with us. As well as @CobbEMC for providing coloring books for kids.

Today is #NationalCentenarianDay, and as the only former President to live to be 100 years old, Carter had a lot to say about aging and life in general. Check out his book, The Virtues of Aging, available in our museum gift shop, or online. #CarterLibrary #PresidentialLibrary

Join us for a special author program with Russell Levenson and Tony Lowden. Levenson, who delivered homilies at the funerals of President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush, and Lowden, longtime pastor to President and Mrs. Carter, will discuss Witness to Belief.

On 6/4/79, Carter signed Proclamation 4664, establishing POW/MIA Recognition Day. Since then, it has been observed every year on the third Friday in September. These MIA bracelets are part of our collection, all gifts to Governor and President-Elect Carter between 1969-1976.

Happy birthday to the U.S. Air Force! One of their many responsibilities is to ensure the President, the family and all of the staff involved in a trip arrive safely. Here is President Carter meeting with the crew of Air Force One on November 3, 1980. Image: nlc20412.15

Today is #ConstitutionDay! This sketch of President Carter has the words of the Constitution written throughout. This object was a gift from the artist, A. Chaba, of Israel in 1977. Object #77.1187

National Voter Registration Day is as great a day as any to ensure you can participate in the important civic duty of voting. For registration options, go to nationalvoterregistrationday.org/register-to-vo… Image: nlc20398.11a, Pres. Carter votes in Plains, GA, 11/4/80

On 06/29/1978, President, First Lady, and Amy Carter got to admire some handiwork after their day at the Virginia Beach Fishing Center! #NationalVirginiaDay #CartersAcrossAmerica #CarterLibrary

With a President who used to own a peanut farm, National Peanut Day is almost like Christmas around these parts! Here is a small sampling of some of the peanut related items in our collection. #PresidentialLibrary #CarterLibrary

Today marks 24 years since the September 11th attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans on U.S. soil. May we remember their stories and the loss we all experienced that day. Image: nlc 06539.4, 7/14/78, Ceremony at the Victims of War and Tyranny Memorial in Berlin

On this #NationalNewHampshireDay, we are bringing it all the way back to 1976 with some images of the Peanut Brigade campaigning in New Hampshire. That sure is a lot of snow for those native Georgians! #PeanutBrigade #CarterLibrary #PresidentialLibrary

Today is #NationalReadABookDay! Our rose garden butterflies say, "Flutter in, grab a story, and let your imagination fly!" In honor of Mrs. Carter, our Little Free Library is here to remind us: the best adventures start with turning a page. Thanks Rory and Kelly for stocking it!

Join us on September 10 at the Carter Library to hear Dr. Gyan Pandey discuss his new book, Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India, with WABE’s Lois Reitzes.

Join us on September 27 from 10am-2pm to honor President Carter's legacy of energy and sustainability. Community partners from Trees Atlanta, Georgia Power, Cobb EMC and Sunpath Solar will be in attendance for solar demonstrations, kids activities and giveaways!