There were many reasons that Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980. The Panama Canal Treaty wasn’t among them.

A year-long hostage crisis led to a presidency that would shape American politics for decades. But how much of what really happened is public?

One of the world’s most complex regions hosted the humble Southerner’s biggest triumph and most stinging defeat, as seen on front pages of The Washington Post.

Amid the energy crisis of the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter hoped to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

Ronald Reagan took aim at Jimmy Carter’s environmental legacy. President Biden’s climate initiatives could face a similar fate.

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

As a member of the elite, informal club of U.S. presidents past and present, Jimmy Carter was uniquely positioned to do important work for his successors, whether Democrat or Republican.

The death of Jimmy Carter on Sunday is causing many ... The hostages were finally released on Jan. 20, 1981, minutes after Reagan took office. Carter’s government had signed the Algiers Accords ...

At first, Jimmy Carter was a political wizard. But he couldn’t keep the magic act going.

Reagan's greatest conflict was not with Iran, but the Soviet Union -- and he handled it much differently than Carter handled the hostage crisis. In 1977, Richard Allen -- who would later become Reagan's first national security adviser -- was thinking of running for governor of New Jersey. So, he traveled to California to ask Reagan for his support.

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.