The woman, holding a slender black smoking pipe, has much higher nalin than her companion, accentuating the height differential. Her status alongside the attendant is clear, too, from her sumptuous ...

Zohran Mamdani borrowed a historic Quran from the Schomburg Center for his inauguration, now on view at the New York Public ...

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.

Zohran Mamdani is making history not only as New York's first mayor to take the oath of office on a Quran but also as the ...

Incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is making history as the first Muslim, South Asian and African-born mayor.

Parcel-Gilt Silver Filigree, each panel centered by a gilt filigree roundel with mirror cypher, flanked by gilt rosettes, in a framework of white silver filigree flowers and foliage with faceted red ...

At a Department of History Event on Tuesday, Director of the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History Karin Wulf celebrated the launch of her book “Lineage: Genealogy and the Politics of ...

We’ve known for a long time that the planets travel around the sun, but there was a period where this was still new, exciting, and worthy of public demonstrations. Eighteenth century artist Joseph ...