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This issue focuses on gravestones, with features on interpreting old New England epitaphs, Mount Auburn Cemetery, and the “Fighting Armstrongs” interred at Boston’s Granary Burying Ground. The magazine also features articles by David Lambert on U.S. military gravestones, Sarah Dery on grave cleaning, Judy Lucey on our Harriette Merrifield Forbes collection of New England gravestone photographs, and Curt DiCamillo on two Shakespeare grave rubbings donated to our collection in 1874.

Additional content includes an article by Chris Child on U.S. presidents in the 1950 census and new research on Phillis Wheatley Peters and her husband, John Peters.

As always, the issue contains news and information on our educational and research opportunities.