President Jimmy Carter

The secrecy around an illness can become the great taboo. What Jimmy Carter did by going public was break that taboo and face the disease squarely. He did…

When Jimmy Carter was in the Oval Office, the nation was still reeling from Watergate and Vietnam. As president, he created the Departments of Education…

The Symbionese Liberation Army, or SLA, is little known today, but it was worldwide news 40 years ago. That’s when Patty Hearst, 19, was kidnapped at…