At the time, many blamed Carter for not bringing the US hostages in Iran home. But one Marine says he saved his life.

Jimmy Carter was not your stereotypical politician. He was a deeply religious man and more of a moral leader than a political ...

The presidency of Jimmy Carter included a sense of honor and decency but also a failure in Iran that has had violent ...

One of the world’s most complex regions hosted the humble Southerner’s biggest triumph and most stinging defeat, as seen on ...

Stanford Professor Abbas Milani speaks to Christiane Amanpour about President Jimmy Carter’s relationship with Iran.

Jimmy Carter, a U.S. president who served only one term but was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the ...

Thursday concluded six days of national rites that began in Plains, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died after 22 months ...

Author and scholar Reza Aslan was a child in Iran when President Jimmy Carter made history with his 1977 visit with aims to move the country “towards a pro-democratic alignment.” Aslan describes the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Barry Rosen, one of the 52 Americans held in Iran during the hostage crisis from 1979 to 1981, on President Jimmy Carter's quest to bring about their safe release.

I first met Jimmy Carter more than 50 years ago in California. It was at a small fundraiser hosted by a good Monterey ...

President Jimmy Carter ran as a Washington outsider. Once in the Oval Office, he faced the insiders he had run against, was celebrated for the Camp David Accords, and challenged by the Iran ...