In the years leading up to the American Revolution ... Three groups vied for supremacy: traditionalists who believed that religion was essential to maintain social order and sought to maintain ...

According to a written statement released by the Archdiocese of Newark, “artifacts include a piece of the sponge Jesus drank from on the cross, part of the ‘King of the Jews’ sign ...

They arrived by the thousands, then the tens of thousands, building a thriving religious community that profoundly shaped American ideas of liberty of conscience, the nature of individual ...