National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Enslaved and the Civil War
National Humanities Center lesson plan on how enslaved African Americans in the South undermined the Southern cause during the Civil War. Lesson contents includes primary sources material, strategies for text analysis, vocabulary, and...
American Battlefield Trust
American Battlefield Trust: Civil War Biography: Robert Gould Shaw
Biographical profile of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the 54th Massachusetts, one of the first-formed African American regiments of Union soldiers.
Other
Lives of Civil War Heroes: Biography of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Index to links for biographies of Robert Gould Shaw and information about the 54th Massachusetts.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Saint Gaudens: Robert Shaw Memorial [Pdf]
Analysis of a memorial sculpture dedicated to the 54th Massachusetts, the first regiment of African Americans recruited for service in the Union Army.
Civil War Home
Home of the American Civil War: Robert Gould Shaw
A brief description of the life and death of Robert Shaw and his involvement with the black regiment, the 54th Massachusetts. From "Who Was Who In the Civil War" by Stewart Sifakis.