Film Focus:
Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, edited by Russell Duncan. Univ. of Georgia Press, 1992.
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw: A Pictorial History, by Marion Whitney Smith. Carlton, 1990.
One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment, by Peter Burchard. Sr. Martin's 1965.
Books About the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
A Brave Black Regiment: History of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865, by Luis F. Emilio. Boston Book Co., 1894.
Lay This Laurel: An Album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial on Boston Common, Honoring Black and White Men Together, Who Served the Union Cause with Robert Gould Shaw and Died With Him July 18, 1863, by Richard Benson. Eakins, 1973.
On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters From the Front, by James Henry Gooding, edited by Virginia Matzke Adams. Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1991.
Undying Glory: The Story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, by Clinton Cox. Scholastic, 1991.
"We'll Stand by the Union": Robert Gould Shaw and the Black 54th Massachusetts Regiment, by Peter Burchard. Facts on File, 1993.
Books About Black Soldiers in the Civil War
The Black Phalanx, by Joseph T. Wilson. Arno Press, 1968, 1890.
Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers, by Joseph T. Glatthaar. Free Press, 1990.
Like Men of War: Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865, by Noah Andre Trudeau. Little, Brown, 1998.
The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865, by Dudley Taylor Cornish. Norton, 1966.
United States Colored Troops, 1863-1867, by William A. Gladstone. Thomas Pub., 1990.
Books About the Siege of Charleston
Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863, by Stephen R. Wise. University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
The Siege of Charleston, 1861-1865, by E. Milby Burton. Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1970.