The National Archives would like to welcome you to one of its latest social media ventures. Presidential Libraries are now on Pinterest! “Pinterest is a content sharing service that allows members to ‘pin’ images, videos, and other objects to their pinboards…” -Social Media and Digital Engagement at the National Archives According to an announcement that went [...]

The Jimmy Carter Library & Museum hopes that all those celebrating Easter this Sunday, March 31st, have a wonderful holiday! The Carter Museum will be open on the 31st from noon to 4:45pm. We encourage you to plan your visit online. As you can see in the above image, President Carter enjoyed the traditional White [...]

The Jimmy Carter Library would like to make undergraduate and graduate students aware of an exciting opportunity to study several aspects of US and UK intelligence & security programs for academic credit. “The Corpus Christi Summer School in British and American Intelligence and Security provides in-depth teaching in UK and US intelligence & security programmes [...]

Happy Friday! A new original series from C-SPAN, First Ladies: Influence & Image, debuted on February 18, 2013, President’s Day. The series will run from February 2013 to February 2014 in two seasons. (See C-SPAN’s website for the TV Schedule.) “C-SPAN is producing a two-year feature series on the First Ladies, examining their private lives [...]

The NDC blog is a fellow National Archives blog focusing on the National Declassification Center. According to the NDC Blog, the mission of the NDC is “…to align people, processes, and technologies to advance the declassification and public release of historically valuable permanent records while maintaining national security.” Well, it appears that, in the process [...]

In observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 21, 2013, the Research Room of the Jimmy Carter Library will be closed.  The Museum will be open for normal business hours. If you are in the Atlanta area, we invite you to pay us a visit and to check out the nearby Martin [...]

For those of you in or near the Atlanta area, we invite you to join us on Monday, January 21 as we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a free showing of the Inauguration of President Barack Obama in our Museum theaters. (Specific schedule details will be announced soon! Check back on our Events [...]

The staff at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum would like to wish all a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Safe travels to all. In lieu of a regular blog post this week, I thought you all might enjoy the following image from the Jimmy Carter Library’s Carter White House Photographs Collection. (Click on the image [...]

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. This act triggered a profound crisis of the Carter presidency and began a personal ordeal for Jimmy Carter and the American people that lasted 444 days. However, six American diplomats, often referred to as “the Tehran Six,” [...]