The 54 th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and Colonel Shaw are memorialized on the Boston Common with a monument considered one of the most important installations of public art in the country. The ...

The Formation of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. During a tour of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial at the National Gallery of Art, Senior Curator of Photographs Sarah Greenough explained ...

This painting depicts the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment’s heroic July 18, 1863 assault on Fort Wagner, on Morris Island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. During the ...

Host Tavis Smiley interviews actor and director Morgan Freeman about the story of the Massachusetts 54th Colored Regiment. Freeman co-starred in the movie Glory based on the 54th, and narrated a ...

The legacy of the 54th Massachusetts has been long and profound. In 1989, the movie “Glory” told the regiment’s story, ending with the soldiers’ charge on Fort Wagner in South Carolina in ...

The NAACP’s Juneteenth events on Sunday honored the legacy of local Black Civil War soldiers and celebrated community and ...

Fox News host Lawrence Jones visited the Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial, dedicated to one of the first African-American regiments to fight for the Union Army during the ...

Massachusetts 54th Regiment reenactors posed in front of the Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial after an event marking a signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to ...

A memorial depicting the famed 54th Massachusetts Civil War regiment has been defaced.Investigators said a woman pulled up in a car Tuesday afternoon and splashed the statue with yellow paint.

The 54th Massachusetts, the first northern black regiment in the Union Army, was sent to South Carolina to take part in operations against Confederate forces. close Report Video Issue Go to Live Event ...

The 54 th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and Colonel Shaw are memorialized on the Boston Common with a monument considered one of the most important installations of public art in the country. The ...

VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – This painting depicts the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment’s heroic July 18, 1863 assault on Fort Wagner, on Morris Island at the mouth ...