When Col. Robert Gould Shaw led his newly formed 54th Massachusetts Regiment down Boston's Beacon Street and off to war, American poet John Greenleaf Whittier described Shaw as "the very flower of ...

After the sword of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw was gifted to the Massachusetts Historical Society by descendants of Shaw’s sister earlier this year, staff from the organization used their ...

The 1989 film "Glory" told the world the story of Robert Gould Shaw leading the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, an all Black infantry unit in the Civil War. A longtime abolitionist ...