Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting on Tuesday.

Nancy Matzdorff’s earliest memory of “Uncle Ted” is a sweet one — literally. It was the summer of 1941 when he visited her parents in Los Angeles. She recalls him taking her by the hand and walking up ...

The world knew Jimmy Carter as a president and humanitarian, but he also was a woodworker, painter and poet, creating a body ...