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.

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 ...

Civil War reenactors stand in formation at the start of re-dedication ceremonies for the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Memorial, which commemorates the famed Civil War unit ...

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A Civil War memorial honoring Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, a famed unit of Black soldiers, is back where it belongs. For months the bronze relief had been at a ...

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Upon the outbreak of the Civil War at Fort Sumter, many freed African American men answered the call of the nation. Unfortunately, a 1792 Federal law barred African American from enlisting in the ...

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