Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial Tapa dura - 2013

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Yale University Press, 2013. Hardcover. New.

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in very good condition and signed by all four authors. There is a crease in the dust jacket as well as the cover of the book. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
On July 18, 1863, six months after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the first American units composed of African Americans stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina, led by Colonel Robert Shaw Gould. Although the regiment suffered great losses, the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry legitimized the idea of blacks serving in the military, and Lincoln considered their sacrifice a turning point in the Civil War. Twenty years later, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens began work on a bronze memorial for this heroic troop, which was installed on the Boston Common in 1897.
Tell It With Pride explores the enduring significance of this beloved monument. Original daguerreotypes, carte-de-visite portraits,… Leer más

Yale Univ Pr, 2013. Hardcover. New. 209 pages. 11.25x10.00x1.25 inches.