Anthropology Museums Start Reckoning: What To Do With Bones Of Enslaved Africans In Their Collections?

It started last summer with the Morton Cranial Collection at Penn, spread to Harvard’s Peabody and Warren Museums, and, in recent weeks, has come to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Samuel Redman, a historian who’s made a serious study of the history of museums’ collecting of human bones, says the moves by those three institutions could be a “historical tipping point.” – The New York Times