Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn’t

When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection^[1], a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. “Legend has it,” she said, “John James Audubon^[2] really collected the skulls Morton claimed as his own.” Her voice was lowered so as not to disturb the other scholars in the hushed archive.

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