Hope & glory
Subtitle: essays on the legacy of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment
By: edited by Martin H. Blatt, Thomas J. Brown, and Donald Yacovone
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781558497221
Subjects: United States; African American Participation; United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865); African American influences; Social aspects; Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Military participation; Civilization; Memory; African American; Regimental histories; American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658; African American soldiers; History
Other titles: Hope and glory
Notes: "Foreword by Colin L. Powell"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defending the manhood of the race: the crisis of citizenship in black Boston at midcentury  -- James Oliver Horton; title: Brave black volunteers: a profile of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment  -- Edwin S. Redkey; title: The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, the pay crisis, and the "Lincoln despotism"  -- Donald Yacovone; title: "It was a sacrifice we owed": the Shaw family and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment  -- Joan Waugh; title: The Shaw Memorial in the landscape of Civil War memory  -- David W. Blight; title: Taken from life: Edward M. Bannister, Edmonia Lewis, and the memorialization of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment  -- Marilyn Richardson; title: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the Shaw Memorial  -- Kathryn Greenthal; title: Reconstructing Boston: civic monuments of the Civil War  -- Thomas J. Brown; title: Uncommon soldiers: race, art, and the Shaw Memorial  -- Kirk Savage; title: "Those noble songs of Ham": poetry, soldiers, and citizens at the end of reconstruction  -- James Smethurst; title: The musical monument of Charles Ives  -- Denise Von Glahn; title: Art, heroism, and poetry: the Shaw Memorial, Lowell's "For the union dead," and Berryman's "Boston common: a meditation upon the hero"  -- Helen Vendler; title: Glory: Hollywood history, popular culture, and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment  -- Martin H. Blatt; title: Glory as a meditation on the Saint-Gaudens Monument  -- Thomas Cripps; title: "Their time will yet come": the African American presence in Civil War reenactment -- Cathy Stanton and Stephen Belyea.