Animal History
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The scholarly journal of historical animals and human-animal relationships.
Issue no. 4 is out! It features a 'Tracks in the Field' essay, four research articles, plus book reviews!
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Issue no. 4 is out! It features a 'Tracks in the Field' essay, four research articles, plus book reviews!
Folks, when your library subscribes to Animal History, you get access to all our articles & reviews! The journal is published by Univ. of CA Press (a nonprofit) that relies on library subscriptions to get research to you! Our library recommendation form: online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Folks, when your library subscribes to Animal History, you get access to all our articles & reviews! The journal is published by Univ. of CA Press (a nonprofit) that relies on library subscriptions to get research to you! Our library recommendation form: online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
"The Anonymous Animal: (Not) Naming and (Not) Knowing in the Anthropocene" by Whitney Barlow Robles, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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October 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"The Anonymous Animal: (Not) Naming and (Not) Knowing in the Anthropocene" by Whitney Barlow Robles, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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"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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October 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"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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"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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September 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"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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"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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September 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"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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"Charles Darwin and Cats" by Janet Browne, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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September 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"Charles Darwin and Cats" by Janet Browne, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
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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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September 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Special Issue out now! 'Animals and the History of Natural History' - Guest Editors: Rebecca Woods (Univ. of Toronto) & Anya Zilberstein (Concordia Univ., Montréal)
online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3
online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3
new article! Anna Lisa Taylor "Dogs, Lions, and Saints: Real and Imaginary Animals in Early Christianity" online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/2
July 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
new article! Anna Lisa Taylor "Dogs, Lions, and Saints: Real and Imaginary Animals in Early Christianity" online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/2
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
July 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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
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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Sam Dolbee - Street Dogs of Kurtuluş and Paths to Animal History of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa
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July 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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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Sam Dolbee - Street Dogs of Kurtuluş and Paths to Animal History of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa
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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
May 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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
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
April 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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
FREE article: Blakley "Historicizing the 'Beast-Man': On Slavery and Human-Animal Studies" Issue 1, no. 1
April 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
FREE article: Blakley "Historicizing the 'Beast-Man': On Slavery and Human-Animal Studies" Issue 1, no. 1
From Issue 1, no. 1 - "What is Animal Prehistory?" by Shumon T. Hussain: FREE article, online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1
April 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
From Issue 1, no. 1 - "What is Animal Prehistory?" by Shumon T. Hussain: FREE article, online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1
Our inaugural issue Volume 1, Number 1 is FREE! online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1
March 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Our inaugural issue Volume 1, Number 1 is FREE! online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/1
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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October 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM
New Article! Hess, "Animal-Human Relationship in War: Cavalry Horses and their Riders in the American Civil War" doi.org/10.1525/ah.2...
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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October 10, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Issue 1, no. 1 - advance release article: Skabelund review of Saha, Colonizing Animals
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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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September 24, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Issue 1, no. 1 - open-access advance release article: Hussein, "What is Animal Prehistory?"
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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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July 8, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Although our first issue doesn't come out till next year, our inaugural essay is out now!
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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)
(photo: Stephanie Wolf / CPR News)
April 8, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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)
(photo: Stephanie Wolf / CPR News)
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!
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March 15, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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!
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Meet the Editors of Animal History – ASEH Connects Virtual Series, November 20 1:30pm est - zoom: brown.zoom.us/j/93883122463
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Please join us!
November 8, 2023 at 8:43 PM
Meet the Editors of Animal History – ASEH Connects Virtual Series, November 20 1:30pm est - zoom: brown.zoom.us/j/93883122463
Please join us!
Please join us!
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
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
November 6, 2023 at 7:07 PM
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
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
November 6, 2023 at 7:04 PM