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Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is the only presidential library located in the Southeast. The facility features author lectures, educational programs, a full-size replica of the Oval Office and the Nobel Peace Prize. The presidential archives is a repository of approximately 27 million pages of Jimmy Carter's White House material, papers of administration associates, including documents, memoranda, correspondence, etc. There are also 1/2 million photographs, and hundreds of hours film, audio and video tape.

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/

  • Never Again, Again, Again...

    Tue, Oct 6, 2009
    Lane Montgomery discusses her photographic essay with text on the six major genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Darfur. Her *Never Again, Again, Again...: Genocide: Armenia, The Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur* includes text from Terry George, Richard Hovannisian, and Ambassador James Rosenthal.
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  • Heralding Freedom: The Gulag and Human Rights Today

    Wed, Dec 12, 2007
    The Jimmy Carter Library presents a panel discussion of Heralding Freedom: a discussion of the Gulag, the American Civil Rights Movement, and human rights. The Soviet Gulag prison system imprisoned millions of innocent people during its infamous history. A panel of human rights leaders discuss its impact on Russia and the world today, as well as offering comparisons to the American civil rights movement. Former US President Jimmy Carter and former US Ambassador Andrew Young discuss the suppression of political and religious dissidents in the former Soviet Union, the US civil rights movement, and the current work of The Carter Center on human rights. The event coincides with Human Rights Day and the opening of a special exhibit at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic site called *Gulag: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy*. This event is cosponsored by the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic site.
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  • Stories from the Heart of the Land

    Thu, Apr 17, 2008
    National Public Radio producer Jay Allison presents *Stories from the Heart of the Land*, a six-part radio series that ranges across the world—from Australia to Newfoundland, Mexico to Tibet—to capture the human connection to land and landscape. These are radio stories about the land in which we live.
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  • Troublesome Young Men: Rebels Who Helped Save England

    Tue, Jun 5, 2007
    Former White House Correspondent Lynne Olson reads from her new, highly acclaimed book *Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England*.
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  • Stephen L. Carter: Palace Council

    Mon, Jul 21, 2008
    Stephen L. Carter talks about his new novel, *Palace Council*. The Yale law professor describes his book as a hyperbolic thriller and a subtle and convincing comedy of manners. This event is co-sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book.
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  • Bob Schieffer's America

    Mon, Sep 29, 2008
    CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer discusses his new book, *Bob Schieffer's America*, a collection of 168 essays on the hard issues of the day to the human stories that show who we are; from politics, presidents, and tragedy to the things that touch us, make us laugh, or reveal the small shifts in our culture.
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  • Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

    Mon, Dec 4, 2006
    Marton offers a haunting tale of the wartime Hungarian diaspora, and the nine Hungarians who achieved world fame who are profiled in the book including: Nuclear scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner, game theorist and computer pioneer John von Neuman, photojournalists Robert Capa and Andre Kertesz, filmmakers Alexander Korda and Michael Kurtiz and novelist Arthur Koestler. Question and answer period with the audience follows.
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  • Himalaya: Personal Stories of Grandeur, Challenge and Hope

    Fri, Dec 1, 2006
    Coburn delivers a concise presentation on the book, on issues facing the Himalaya, and on the charitable activities of the American Himalayan Foundation. A question and answer period with the audience follows.
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  • Bearing Witness: Captivity, Protest, and Survival II

    Thu, Mar 22, 2007
    Murray Lynn shares stories of his ordeal and survival through WWII Auschwitz concentration camp. Dr. Catherine Lewis, Kennesaw State University, moderates. This lecture is copresented by The Jimmy Carter Library and Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.
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    Michele Norris: The Grace of Silence

    Tue, Dec 7, 2010
    WABE's Valerie Jackson, host of *Between the Lines*, speaks with Michele Norris during the recording of her radio program. In the wake of talk of a “post-racial America” upon the ascendance of Barack Obama as president of the United States, Michele Norris, host of National Public Radio’s *All Things Considered*, set out, through original reporting, to write a book about “the hidden conversation on race” that is going on in this country. But along the way she unearthed painful family secrets—from her father’s shooting by the Birmingham police within weeks of his discharge from service in World War II to her grandmother’s peddling pancake mix as an itinerant Aunt Jemima. In what became an intensely personal and bracing journey, Norris traveled from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South to explore “things left unsaid” by her family when she was growing up. Along the way she discovers how character is forged by both repression and revelation. She learns how silence became a form of self-protection and a means of survival for her parents—strivers determined to create a better life for their children at a time when America was beginning to experiment with racial equality—as it was for white Americans who grew up enforcing strict segregation (sometimes through violence) but who now live in a world where integration is the norm.
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