After delivering a speech on peace in Brooklyn, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá gets his first glimpse of the Lower East Side.

An unlikely series of events points a New Jersey preacher’s life in a new direction.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá boards a train at the busiest rail hub on the planet, in the midwestern heart of a nation in perpetual motion.

As ‘Abdu’l-Bahá leaves Denver for Salt Lake City, a much-anticipated marriage takes place in New York.

New York’s newspapers are starting to discover that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá is more than just another “exotic Easterner.”

‘Abdu’l-Bahá visits the Frederick Douglass Center, a settlement house in Chicago that aims to improve the lives of African Americans.

At the Plaza Hotel in Chicago, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá gives America a unique challenge.

At the Museum of Natural History in New York, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá talks to an elderly man about the life beyond.