Teaching with Documents: 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Colored) Regiment

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54^th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Colored) Regiment

Juvenile Non-Fiction and Fiction

Brooks, Victor. African Americans in the Civil War. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000.
Clinton, Catherine. Hold the Flag High. New York: Katherine Tegen Books of HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
DeAngelis, Gina. The Massachusetts 54^th: African American Soldiers of the Union. Mankato, Minnesota: Bridgestone Books, 2003.
Ford, Carin T. African-American Soldiers in the Civil War: Fighting for Freedom. New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2004.
Haskins, Jim. Black, Blue & Gray. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998.
Malone, Margaret Gay. In My Own Words: The Diary of Susie King Taylor, Civil War Nurse. NY: Benchmark Books, 2004.
Mettger, Zak. Till Victory Is Won: Black Soldiers in the Civil War. New York: Lodestar Books, 1994.
Sakany, Lois. Women Civil War Spies of the Union. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2004. (Includes: Sarah Thompson, Elizabeth Van Lew, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Harriet Tubman, Pauline Cushman, Sarah Emma Edmonds)

Magazines/Journals:

Art and the Civil War. Cobblestone, February 2008, Volume 29, Number 2. A Cobblestone Publication.
Women in the Civil War. Cobblestone, February 2005, Volume 26, Number 2. A Cobblestone Publication.
Historical Thinking and Perspective. Social Studies and the Young Learner, November/December 2000, Volume 13 Number 2. A Quarterly for Creative Teaching in Grades K-6, National Council for the Social Studies.

Websites:

National Gallery of Art – Shaw Memorial - http://www.nga.gov/feature/shaw/
Boston African American National Historic Site – Robert Gould Shaw and 54^th Regiment Memorial - http://www.nps.gov/boaf/historyculture/shaw.htm
National Archives & Records Administration

Document Analysis Worksheet - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/document.html
The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War -http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/
Black POW Treatment - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/black-pows.html
Equal Pay for Black Soldiers - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/equal-pay.html
Frederick Douglass’ Sons - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/douglass-sons.html
Medal of Honor Recipient – Sergeant William Carney of New Bedford, MA - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/medal-of-honor.html
Black Soldiers in the Civil War – Teaching Activities - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/activities.html
Black Soldiers in the Civil War - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/medal-of-honor.html

William H. Carney of New Bedford, MA - Carney Medal of Honor – image http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/images/carney-notation.gif
Carney Description Book – image - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/images/carney-descriptive.gif

National Public Radio – Black Civil-War Soldier Gets Overdue Honors - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6417951
National Park Service - Civil War History – http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/history/aa_cw_parks.htm

Adult Non-Fiction

Benson, Richard and Kirstein, Lincoln. Lay This Laurel: An Album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial on Boston Common. New York: Eakins Press, 1973.
Berlin, Ira, editor. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, Series II, The Black Military Experience. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Burchard, Peter. One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw & His Brave Black Regiment. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1965.
Cox, Clinton. Undying Glory: The Story of the Massachusetts 54^th Regiment. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1991.
Duncan, Russell. Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54^th Massachusetts Infantry. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1999.
Emilio, Luis F. History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865. Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1894.
Gooding, Corporal James Henry. On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier’s Civil War Letters from the Front. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.
Lardas, Mark. African American Soldier in the Civil War, USCT 1862-1866. New York: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2006.
Massachusetts Historical Society. We Fight for Freedom: Massachusetts, African Americans, and the Civil War. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1993.
O’Connor, Thomas H. Civil War Boston: Home Front & Battlefield. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
Redkey, Edwin S., editor. A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Trudeau, Noah Andre. Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War 1862-1865. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1998.