The Samuel G. Morton Cranial Collection has been housed at the Penn Museum since 1966, but was moved to storage amid a student-led effort to repatriate and rebury the human skulls.

Samuel Morton, a 19th-century physician and lecturer motivated by white supremacist beliefs, unethically collected hundreds of human skulls in the course of his research, including 19 that ...

Samuel Morton wasn’t a lone voice on the fringe of medicine. ‘Memoir of the life and scientific labors of Samuel George Morton’ by Henry S. Patterson, CC BY Men of science and medicine ...

Credit: Mia Kim This summer, I am cataloging and digitizing some of the letters sent to Samuel George Morton, the founding father of race science, whose research bolstered the antebellum pro-slavery ...