When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. "Legend has it," she said, "John James Audubon really ...

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 ...

The museum held an interfaith memorial service Saturday to honor the 19 unnamed Black Philadelphians whose skulls were part of the museum’s Samuel G. Morton Cranial Collection – an extensive ...

Samuel F. Morton, the last of the three brothers who gave their name to the old Morton House, at Broadway and Fourteenth Street, died Wednesday in Detroit, Mich., of inflammatory rheumatism.

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 ...

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 ...