The New-York Historical Society (New-York Historical) will present Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West, an expansive public history project comprising a major historical traveling exhibition (on view in New York from September 2022–February 2023), accompanying educational initiatives, and a scholarly fellowship program. The project will explore the ways in which diverse American religiosities and spiritual traditions helped shape westward expansion and the exercise of religion in the United States in the 19th century giving rise to profound social, political, and cultural change. Grounded in rigorous scholarship at the forefront of its field, this interdisciplinary effort occupies the intersection of religious studies, migration studies, and US history, examining the important ways in which religion animated and was in turn shaped by US westward expansion.