{"id":6486,"date":"2023-02-23T04:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=6486"},"modified":"2023-02-23T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T04:27:08","slug":"crespino-on-carters-legacy-one-of-the-great-americans-of-the-late-20th-and-early-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/02\/23\/crespino-on-carters-legacy-one-of-the-great-americans-of-the-late-20th-and-early-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Crespino on Carter&#8217;s Legacy: &#8220;One of the great Americans of the late 20th and early 21st century&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/02\/carter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" src=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/02\/carter.jpg?w=460\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/02\/carter.jpg 460w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/02\/carter-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-united-states-government-gerald-ford-ronald-reagan-hospice-care-f4e26c10a7b366f14e62f690da403b0a\">recent news<\/a> that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter would forgo further medical treatment and receive hospice care in his home, journalists from <em>Atlanta News First <\/em>(ANF)<em> <\/em>visited campus to investigate Carter&#8217;s legacy in the Emory community. <em>ANF <\/em>interviewed Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/crespino-joseph.html\">Joseph Crespino<\/a>, Department Chair and Jimmy Carter Professor of History, about the positive impact that the former president made on generations of Emory students through public lectures, &#8220;Carter Town Halls,&#8221; and visits to classes that professors like Crespino taught. Crespino said that Carter, who was Distinguished University Professor at Emory, will &#8220;be remembered as one of the great Americans of the late 20th and early 21st century.&#8221; Watch\/read the full story from the <em>ANF<\/em>: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2023\/02\/21\/emory-university-professor-says-president-carter-left-lasting-impression-students\/\">Emory University professor says President Carter left lasting impression on students<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of recent news that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter would forgo further medical treatment and receive hospice care in his home, journalists from Atlanta News First (ANF) visited campus to investigate Carter&#8217;s legacy in the Emory community. ANF interviewed Dr. Joseph Crespino, Department Chair and Jimmy Carter Professor of History, about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-teaching","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}