Did you know that Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Qur’an? That George Washington owned enslaved people who were Muslim? And that a Muslim diplomat broke his Ramadan fast in the White House in 1805? These are some of the facts that Aymann Ismail (staff writer, Slate Magazine) discovers as he explores the role that Muslims played in the imagination of America’s founding generation.
A federal immigration file shows how early border laws shaped the Muslim experience in the U.S.
A photograph reveals the rise of Black Muslim life in northern cities during the Great Migration.
A Lebanese homesteader recalls the building of one of the first mosques on the Great Plains.
