Perhaps more than any single post-World War II president, Carter changed the way many saw the U.S. by attempting to inject American values of altruism, democracy and human rights into foreign policy.

When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter ...

As the United States marks the death of former president Jimmy Carter, many people are trying ... Regardless of the rest of Carter’s legacy, his pardon of Vietnam War resisters in Canada had a profound impact on both countries. He should be remembered ...

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.

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

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.

The pardon was one of the defining presidential moments for Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The move was pilloried by members of the military and conservative politicians.

As America prepares to inaugurate its 47th president, today it mourns its 39th. James Earl Carter Jr. was born in 1924 and raised in rural Plains, Ga., before he rose to national and international prominence as a governor,

Former President Jimmy Carter is being honored in Washington National Cathedral, where the country’s five living presidents have gathered to bid farewell to one of their own, joining current and former members of Congress, senior government officials and foreign dignitaries to pay their respects to the nation’s 39th president.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital, followed by a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown that

Carter will remain at the Capitol until Thursday morning, when he is transported to Washington National Cathedral for a state funeral.