Grave Objections: A History of Body Snatching for Science

“Halloween-season history lecture in the Mansion's Rotunda by cemetery specialist and tour guide James Henry, on the century-plus era of body snatching that supplied cadavers to medical schools, its disproportionate impact on marginalized communities, the resulting anatomy riots including New York City's 1788 uprising, and the measures families took to protect their dead. Tickets via Eventbrite.”