After five days of deadlock, the Democratic National Convention selects Woodrow Wilson as its presidential candidate.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá insists on staying in New York as an epic heat wave hammers the country.

In spite of the controversy last April, Reverend Grant invites ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to speak once more at the Church of the Ascension.

Despite being ill, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá delivers a speech to the New York Peace Society in front of thousands at the Hotel Astor.

After visiting New York and Washington, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá is set to arrive in Chicago.

Rather than keep to himself, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was just as busy when riding the trains as he was while off them.

In the decades before the Great War, Germany challenges Europe, Russia feigns peace, and America waits.

Dublin painter George de Forest Brush brings European Orientalism to his romantic depictions of America’s Native peoples.