Of all the Americans ‘Abdu’l-Bahá knew, none were closer to him than Thornton Chase.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá argues that the binding power of religion must lie at the heart of humankind’s hopes for peace.

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

In 1910 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá asks Louis Gregory, an African American lawyer from Washington, DC, about the interracial conflict in America.

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

At Stanford, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá turns the tables on the modern intellectual basis for human aggression.

In addition to his public activities, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá focused on building a community in North America capable of implementing the full range of his father’s vision.

News of the Titanic reaches ‘Abdu’l-Bahá at the Hotel Ansonia on New York’s Upper West Side.