Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago this week, ignited the drive for American independence. That was ...
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"Women who claim the sea claim something men have guarded for centuries," Fatma Helal observes from her workspace, her words ...
The woman, holding a slender black smoking pipe, has much higher nalin than her companion, accentuating the height ...
The Joseph Smith Papers project has been called the "lunar mission" of Mormon historical research. The Latter-day Saint archivist who started the vast undertaking has died, and historians are praising ...
Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between ...
The 18th-century manuscript belongs to New York Public Library's Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture ...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Tuesday that one of the Qurans he used to take his oath as the city's first ...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced one of the Qurans he used to be sworn in as the city's first Muslim leader will be kept on ...
Zohran Mamdani borrowed a historic Quran from the Schomburg Center for his inauguration, now on view at the New York Public ...
The Testament of Ann Lee is an epic musical retelling of the life of the 18th century Shaker founder starring Amanda Seyfried ...
Mamdani placed his hand on two Qurans while taking the oath of office: his grandfather's Quran and a pocket-sized version that dates back to the late 18th or early 19th century.