BOSTON - A newly restored monument honoring a famed Civil War unit of Black soldiers in Boston was officially rededicated Wednesday. The bronze and stone memorial honors Colonel Robert Gould Shaw ...

NEEDHAM, Mass. — The 18 month restoration of the Robert Gould Shaw and 54 th Regiment Memorial is complete, L’Merchie Frazier Director of Education and Interpretation at the Museum of African ...

The Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, which stands across from the Massachusetts State House, recognizes the first all-volunteer Black regiment of the Union Army during the Civil War.

The late morning national rededication of the Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens Wednesday marked the culmination of a three-year, $3 million ...

In late May 1863, under the leadership of its white commander, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the Fifty-Fourth was ordered to the South Carolina coast to prepare to take the city of Charleston. Fort ...

The Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial — considered the nation’s first honoring Black soldiers — underscores how ending slavery was not just about one man, but ...

Civil War reenactor Larry Harris, of Philadelphia, right, marches past the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial, left, that commemorates the famed Civil War unit made up of ...

On July 18, 1863, Col. Robert Gould Shaw led the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment in a fierce but ultimately disastrous attack on Fort Wagner, a beachhead near Charleston, South ...

Kirstein was also fascinated with Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. He had grown up in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, not far from the home of Robert Gould Shaw.

Massachusetts officials and civic leaders, concerned by the Trump administration's potential erasure of history, honored ...

The Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial — considered the nation’s first honoring Black soldiers — underscores how ending slavery was not just about one man, but ...