New Review! Sandra Swart's 'The Lion's Historian: Africa's Animal Past' - by Anna Lisa Taylor online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1 @wildpasts.bsky.social @ohiounivpress.bsky.social

Les ossements de chevaux et d'un âne racontent Jamestown au 17e siècle Nicolas Delsol

NEW! Aurélie Manin reviews 'Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaelogical Historical Study' by Nicolas Delsol online.ucpress.edu/ah

NEW! Oinking in the Mountains: Pigs and Pannage in the Principality of Transylvania (1541-1699, by Kata Tóth online.ucpress.edu/ah

Friends, we just discovered this nice review of our journal from last summer... ecolitbooks.com/2025/08/03/a... image: Calixto Santiago Lopez, La Union, Oaxaca

NEW! Vegetarianism & Animal Protection: The Buddhist Magazine Hushengbao in 1930s China online.ucpress.edu/ah

Limited Time! Issue 2, no. 1 is FREE until March 24: online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1 * photo, Japan temple "Fox" by Andrew Currie

New article: "Awakening to Wildlife: Interwar Japan’s Discovery of Intrinsic Value," by W. Puck Brecher online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1

Limited Time! Issue 2, no. 1 is FREE until March 24: online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1 * photo, Japan temple "Fox" by Andrew Currie

New! Tracks in the Field - "Byzantine Animals: Forgotten Citizens of a 'Forgotten' Empire" by Przemysław Marciniak online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1

Friends! Vol 2, No 1 is hot off the presses with articles about Japan, Transylvania, and China, plus a 'Tracks in the Field' Essay on animals of the Byzantine era: online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/2/1

NEW! "Animal Bridges: Mules in the Making of Asia's Largest Transregional Networks, 1870s-1940s" by Iftekhar Iqbal online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/4

New article! "Horse Play: Celebrity, Nationalism, and the Fall of a Racing Icon in Imperial Russia" by Olga Petri online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/4

New article! "From Manticore to the Healing Lion Skin: Ḥayāt al-Ḥayawān in the Ottoman Context" by Ahmet Göksu and Fatma Afyoncu online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/4

New article in Issue no. 4: "Of Lumpi, Putzi, and Schlupp: Human-Animal Relationships in Nazi Children's and Youth Literature" by Andreas Hübner and Mieke Roscher online.ucpress.edu/ah

NEW tracks in the field: Frédéric Laugrand - "Sentient Beings, Hunting, and Respect: Animals and Inuit Cosmologies in the Canadian Arctic" online.ucpress.edu/ah

Issue no. 4 is out! It features a 'Tracks in the Field' essay, four research articles, plus book reviews!

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"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' online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3

"The Mediterranean Fruit Fly in the Global Arena" by Jessica Wang, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History' online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3

"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' online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3

"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' online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3

"Charles Darwin and Cats" by Janet Browne, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History' online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3

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

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

FREE! article from Issue 2: Sam Dolbee - Street Dogs of Kurtuluş and Paths to Animal History of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa online.ucpress.edu/ah/article/1...

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

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

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...

Issue 1, no. 1 - advance release article: Skabelund review of Saha, Colonizing Animals online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...

Issue 1, no. 1 - open-access advance release article: Hussein, "What is Animal Prehistory?" online.ucpress.edu/ah/article/d...

Although our first issue doesn't come out till next year, our inaugural essay is out now! online.ucpress.edu/ah/article/d...

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)

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...

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

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