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

Black local and state leaders in Massachusetts set off on the walking tour, raising awareness on the importance of teaching ...

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 ...

Object Details Artist Currier & Ives Lithography Company, active 1857 - 1907 Sitter Robert Gould Shaw, 10 Oct 1837 - 18 Jul 1863 Exhibition Label On July 18, 1863, Col. Robert Gould Shaw led the Fifty ...

At Wednesday's ceremony, there was a re-enactment of Shaw and his men marching up Beacon Street past the State House on May 28, 1863, as seen in the memorial. It was originally unveiled in 1897.

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 ...

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 ...

Civil War reenactors march at the start of re-dedication ceremonies for the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial, that commemorates the famed Civil War unit made up of ...

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 ...