Come out and see me at City Winery on May 26, 2006 for another edition of Bowery Boys History Live,

with special guest Carl Raymond from the Gilded Gentleman podcast, American Revolution historian Billy Nimitz,

and Lori Gwen Shapiro, author of a new biography on Amelia Earhart.

That's Bowery Boys History Live on Tuesday, May 26th, a city winery in Manhattan.

Get your tickets at the city winery website, and I'll see you there.

On this week's episode of the Bowery Boys podcast, The Mysteries of Phrenology, the 19th century

discipline which mapped the human skull in order to unlock the secrets of the brain within.

Featuring author Paul Stobb.

So you would go inside.

In the front display, the windows outside were basically rows of skulls,

actual human skulls or casts of skulls.

But you could look at them.

They were right there looking back at you.

The Bowery Boys episode 484.

The Phrenology craze. Hey, it's the Bowery Boys episode 484, the phrenology craze.

Hey, it's the Bowery Boys.

Hey. Hi there, welcome to the Bowery boys.

This is Greg Young.

Tom Myers is away this episode, but I do have a special guest with me.

And we'll be talking about skulls and the strange science known as phrenology,

which in particular captivated New Yorkers in the mid-19th century,

thanks in part to the Fowler family, a group of phrenologists and publishers who ran a salon and cabinet of curiosity in lower Manhattan,

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