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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 2d

"The Mediterranean Fruit Fly in the Global Arena" by Jessica Wang, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 16d

"Talking to Lions: Human-Animal Cultures and the Power of Stories" by Sandra Swart, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 21d

"Coyotes, Cougars, Californians: Views on Changing Animal Relations at the Natural History Museum of LA County" by Alison Laurence, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 29d

"Charles Darwin and Cats" by Janet Browne, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Sep 6

Special Issue out now! 'Animals and the History of Natural History' - Guest Editors: Rebecca Woods (Univ. of Toronto) & Anya Zilberstein (Concordia Univ., Montréal)
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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Jul 30

new article! Anna Lisa Taylor "Dogs, Lions, and Saints: Real and Imaginary Animals in Early Christianity" online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/2

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Jul 21

FREE! new article - Holly Marriott Webb "On the Uses of Fieldwork in Animal History: Deer Stalking and the Ephemeral Archive" online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/2

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Jul 9

FREE! article from Issue 2:
Sam Dolbee - Street Dogs of Kurtuluş and Paths to Animal History of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa
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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · May 14

FREE from Issue 1, no. 1: Hess, "The Animal-Human Relationship in War: Cavalry Horses and Their Riders in the American Civil War" [image: Edwin Forbes, US Cavalry Horse, 1863, Library of Congress] online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Apr 23

FREE from Issue 1, no. 1: Nikkilä, "Building a Nest in Human-Built Spaces: Tracing the Experiences of Finnish Sows, c. 1900–1930s" online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Apr 14

FREE article: Blakley "Historicizing the 'Beast-Man': On Slavery and Human-Animal Studies" Issue 1, no. 1

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Apr 3

From Issue 1, no. 1 - "What is Animal Prehistory?" by Shumon T. Hussain: FREE article, online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Mar 4

Our inaugural issue Volume 1, Number 1 is FREE! online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Oct 25

New Article! Hess, "Animal-Human Relationship in War: Cavalry Horses and their Riders in the American Civil War" doi.org/10.1525/ah.2...

The Animal-Human Relationship in War: Cavalry Horses and Their Riders in the American Civil War

Issues germane to animal history and military history intersect in the study of cavalry horses and their riders during the American Civil War. Animal historians should understand that warfare created ...

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Oct 10

Issue 1, no. 1 - advance release article: Skabelund review of Saha, Colonizing Animals
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Review: Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar, by Jonathan Saha

The publication of the inaugural issue of Animal History, the first academic journal dedicated to the histories of animals and human-animal relationships, coming two decades after “Animals in History,...

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Sep 24

Issue 1, no. 1 - open-access advance release article: Hussein, "What is Animal Prehistory?"
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What Is Animal Prehistory?

This paper engages animal archaeologies with key debates in animal history. Animal archaeology is currently and primarily framed as a multi-species venture, and a brief review of its disciplinary gene...

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Jul 8

Although our first issue doesn't come out till next year, our inaugural essay is out now!
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Animal History: A Brief Introduction to Its Past and Future

The first issue of a new scholarly journal is an important moment to mark out the state of the field, its past, and possible future goals. Animal History is dedicated to cultivating and featuring rigo...

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Apr 8

An amazing 35 people showed up at 7:15 am for the Animal History Breakfast at the ASEH conference in Denver on Friday. Thanks to everyone who appeared to share their research and interest!
(photo: Stephanie Wolf / CPR News)

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Mar 15

The Animal History Breakfast at ASEH in Denver is Friday, April 5 at 7:15am. There will be coffee and editors from the journal ready to hear about your animal history research. See you there!
aseh.org/aseh-2024-sc...

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Nov 8

Meet the Editors of Animal History – ASEH Connects Virtual Series, November 20 1:30pm est - zoom: brown.zoom.us/j/93883122463
Please join us!

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Nov 6

inaugural volume - Call for Papers

any geographic region, era, or species; we are especially interested in studies re: peoples of color, rural and working-class populations, marginalized communities, and less familiar species.

Submissions (6500-9100 words) via animalhistory.scholasticahq.com

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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · Nov 6

announcing our new scholarly journal:
Animal History
our website is live!
online.ucpress.edu/ah

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