An American story

Muslims who helped shape America.

Twelve subjects. Sixty stories. A closer look at the work, creativity, and everyday commitments that contribute to a shared country.

Choose a subject

Many ways to make a difference.

Five routes into Muslim American history through manuscripts, community institutions, migration, and the work of preserving public memory.

Five histories connect public argument, job access, prison religious exercise, mosque zoning, and challenges to surveillance.

Explore a neurosurgical invention, neighborhood clinics, mental-health institutions, and medical volunteering through five documented stories.

Five stories connect laboratories, skyscrapers, space exploration, and computing through the work of Muslim American scientists and engineers.

Five stories of Muslim American enterprise, from automotive manufacturing to clothing, jewelry, homewares, and founder networks.

Five stories connect Black Muslim schools, campus organizing, an accredited college, scholarships, and classroom education.

Five ways to explore Muslim American service, from a military chapel and a veterans’ hospital to Congress and diplomacy.

Explore Muslim American contributions through recovery teams, housing, refugee support, research, and organized volunteering.

Explore five connected stories: an adobe mosque, contemporary animation, a Houston arts society, wall art, and a California scarf brand.

Five routes through American storytelling: children’s books, superhero comics, independent publishing, national journalism, and Detroit filmmaking.

Five Muslim American sporting stories connecting achievement with public voice, participation, coaching, and education.

Five documented ways Muslim institutions contribute to American neighborhoods through shared space, housing, civic learning, and environmental work.

Start with a place

From the art & architecture collection

Explore Hassan Fathy’s New Mexico mosque and the people who helped turn a design into a place.