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This bas-relief is of the medical care on the battlefield. It's called the "Sanitation Committee," after the committee founded in 1861 that was formed to raise funds for the sick and wounded soldiers in the civil war.

The overlap of the Boston city tour bus with the Charles Street Meeting House, the home of a long segregationist tradition of church seating and the struggle against it, provides a snapshot of the different temporal layers that intersect in Beacon…

This is an old map of Boston that shows the Roxbury Neck

This bas-relief is titled "The Departure for War." It depicts soldiers departing from war and leaving behind wives and children while the statesmen in the background look on.

This bas-relief is titled "The Departure for War." It depicts soldiers departing from war and leaving behind wives and children while the statesmen in the background look on.

The frame, almost resembling a piece of modern art, reveals the underlying layers of brick and paint under the currently recreated walls of the African Meeting House.

This bas-relief is of the navy. The mariners are leaving for war. In the background, a ship has shot a canon at a fortress on a cliff.

The Museum of African American History was once the Abiel Smith School, the first black public school that replaced the school in the basement of the African Meeting House. The school remained Boston's black public school until public schools were…

The U.S.S. Constitution has been alive, despite several holdups, since 1797.

Lewis Hayden (1816-1889) was born a slave and eventually escaped with his wife to settle in Boston. Lewis later became a leader in the abolitionist movement and the Hayden House became a key stop on the Underground Railroad.