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Hope & Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment

by Thomas J. Brown · 2000

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The monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, located on Boston Common, stands at a symbolic crossroads of American history. This volume looks at the ways Americans have responded to the story of the regiment and the Saint-Gaudens monument. It also examines race and community in the United States.

Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of this
Setting
19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thiscivil warcivil warMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of thisMassachusettsMassachusettsMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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