Description This lesson has students explore the formation and legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, one of the first Black regiments during the Civil War.

Jackson Green, an activist from Utah, has been arrested and charged with defacing a memorial to Black Civil War soldier at the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC last autumn. In a ...

The bronze memorial to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry was hoisted back into place on Boston Common on Wednesday morning.

A groundbreaking exhibit presents the Civil War through the eyes of artists uncertain of the conflict's outcome, shedding fresh light on the events ...

Rather than focusing on battle scenes, the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit’s drama lies in its paintings of vistas.

In this second of a two-part look at a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibit, senior curator Eleanor Jones Harvey talked about the symbolism of a selection of paintings and photographs with a ...

In this blog post, Shauna Devine, Ph.D., chronicles the introduction of general inhalation anesthesia and how it transformed medical and surgical practice in the mid-19th century.

Local News Monument honoring Black Civil War unit rededicated “The Black soldiers of the 54th were as much the great emancipators as Abraham Lincoln.” Civil War reenactor Larry Harris, of ...

54th Regiment Memorial, The American Heritage Museum, the Salem Witch trials, and more ...

Among the immense list of African American heroes were the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the U.S. Civil War.

Boston's Shaw Memorial depicts the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, which was crushed 150 years ago in South Carolina. It took American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens 14 years to complete the Boston ...

A new comic book will feature the story of Sgt. William Carney, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Civil War. Image via the Association of the United States Army/Army photo.