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Defending the manhood of the race: the crisis of citizenship in black Boston at midcenturyJames Oliver Horton -- Brave black volunteers: a profile of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment Edwin S. Redkey -- The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, the pay crisis, and the "Lincoln despotism" Donald Yacovone -- "It was a sacrifice we owed": the Shaw family and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment Joan Waugh -- The Shaw Memorial in the landscape of Civil War memory David W. Blight -- Taken from life: Edward M. Bannister, Edmonia Lewis, and the memorialization of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment Marilyn Richardson -- Augustus Saint-Gaudens and the Shaw Memorial Kathryn Greenthal -- Reconstructing Boston: civic monuments of the Civil War Thomas J. Brown -- Uncommon soldiers: race, art, and the Shaw Memorial Kirk Savage -- "Those noble songs of Ham": poetry, soldiers, and citizens at the end of reconstruction James Smethurst -- The musical monument of Charles Ives Denise Von Glahn -- 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 -- Glory: Hollywood history, popular culture, and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment Martin H. Blatt -- Glory as a meditation on the Saint-Gaudens Monument Thomas Cripps -- "Their time will yet come": the African American presence in Civil War reenactment Cathy Stanton and Stephen Belyea.