Tinderbox' author Robert W. Fieseler on moments of loss and recovery for the queer community — and a stolen bronze monument.

plaques and victory columns can have an almost numbing effect. With this much history, it's easy for even the most noteworthy pieces to get lost in the shuffle. Case in point: The Robert Gould Shaw ...

Dedication of the Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment in Boston on May 31, 1897. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society The monument was finally ...

In his “In Memory of W. B. Yeats,” W ... including “For the Union Dead” (1964), with its heartbreaking lines about Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, killed while leading the first black regiment in the North ...

His formal approach to composition was apt to be considered outdated in comparison with the more pictorially-oriented naturalism that infused Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Robert Gould Shaw Memorial ...

No visitor can fail to appreciate the near-incomprehensible sacrifices made here in July 1863, thanks to the over 1,300 monuments, plaques ... Robert Gould Shaw, and does so in a manner traditionally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Allen has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday on Boston Common in front of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial. Allen is the first Black woman to run for governor as a member of a major party in ...