Why was Carter's reelection effort so disastrous? Perhaps the most significant reason -- but not the only reason -- was that Iran had taken Americans hostage in 1979 and was still holding them when ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died Dec. 29 at age 100. Here is a classic Throwback Thursday column about Carter's visit to Corpus Christi in the fall of 1980. Corpus Christi ...

Jimmy Carter’s insistence on putting principle over politics may have doomed him to the ranks of one-term presidents in the U.S., but it also showcased him as one of the finest individuals to ever ...

In 1980, as the Republicans held their national convention in Detroit, President Jimmy Carter left Washington, returned to Georgia and spent five days on Sapelo Island. That was his idea of a ...

Jimmy Carter during the Democratic National Convention in New York in July 1976. (Lehtikuva/AFP/Getty Images) The nation is laying Jimmy Carter to rest with a celebration of a legacy that has enjoyed ...

When President Jimmy Carter ran for reelection in 1980, he had to compete against former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. It was no contest. Reagan took 44 of the 50 states and won the popular vote by ...