I’m currently writing about the history of wood duck conservation and have spent the last few weeks trying to find one in real life (out of the archive!) as they arrive for spring nesting season.
#animalhist #ducks
"[This paper] provides a fresh perspective on the role of animals in forging human’s understanding of the ocean’s depths, and on the interplay between science, technology, and myth in defining the human relationship to the natural world." #animalhist #oceanhist #envhist #envhum
Now that we all left KC after a wonderful #ASEH #ASEH2026, continue the scholar conversation by reviewing a book for H-Environment! Check out my list of books below! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #energy #animalhist #sustainability #anthropocene #plantstudies
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Check out Tim Lehman's review of Brett Bannor's "American Sheep: A Cultural History," published in 2024 by @ugapress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist #animalhist
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A museum display case featuring a passenger pigeon with the text “species at risk”
A taxidermied Labrador Duck with a sign reading: “these ducks are now probably extinct as none have been seen since 1875”
Extinct “Species at Risk” at the Redpath Museum at McGill University: Passenger Pigeon + Labrador Duck
#animalhist
Check out Jack Love's review of Earl J. Hess's "Civil War Cavalry: Waging Mounted Warfare in Nineteenth-Century America," published in 2025 by @lsupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #animalhist #militaryhist🐎
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Join the Rural History Roundtable on Thursday March 12 from 330-5pm EST, as Dr. Tami Parr @pdxia.bsky.social presents on "Goats in America: From Poor Man's Cow to Urban Icon." 🐐
For info on how to attend this online talk, click here:
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#aghist #animalhist #envhist
Child standing at a table on which some taxidermy specimens of birds are placed, as well as a bin of bird study skins of ducks.
I recently joined the Peterborough Field Naturalists @ptbonature.bsky.social with my child and was happy to witness taxidermy as a tool for hands-on learning for the “junior naturalists” last weekend at Trent University. #animalhist
Most of the tags read “window collision” as cause of death.
Check out Georgia Irby's review of Asha De Vos's "Whale: The Illustrated Biography," published in 2025 by @princetonupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist #oceanhist #naturewriting🐋
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Check out Fang Wu's review of Anastasija Ropa "The Medieval Horse," published in 2025 by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalstudies #animalhist
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Check out Brett Bannor's review of Trish FitzSimons & Madelyn Shaw's "Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War," published in 2025 by @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum #animalhist #aghist
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CFP 📢 Join us for a panel on conservation histories for the European Congress of Conservation Biology in Leiden @eccb26leiden.bsky.social If you're interested, email @georgeholmes.bsky.social or me with an abstract by Feb 9.
#envhist #histsci #animalhist
#conservationhumanities
A poster advertising the Winter 2026 talks for the Rural History Roundtable series. The poster contains an image of a goat looking up at a carrot. The details for each talk are provided, as well as information for registering for the virtual presentations.
Excited to announce our Winter 2026 line-up of talks for the @uguelphhist.bsky.social Rural History Roundtable series. All will be available on Zoom and January's talk is hybrid (weather permitting). #ruralhist #animalhist #aghist @pdxia.bsky.social @benbradleyca.bsky.social
Check out Zoe Brimberry's review of Catharine Melin-Moser's "When Montana Outraced the East: The Reign of Western
Thoroughbreds, 1886-1900," published in 2025 by @oupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist
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Check out Taryn Dixon's review of Tami Parr's "Goats in America: A Cultural History," published in 2025 by @osupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #aghist #animalhist
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Check out Alyssa Kotva's review of Chris Mattison's "The Lives of Snakes: A Natural History of the World's Snakes," published in 2025 by @princetonupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #naturalhistory #animalhist #STS 🐍
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Check out Mary Sanders Pollock's review of Jill Pruetz's "Apes on the Edge: Chimpanzee Life on the West African Savanna," published in 2025 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist #histsci
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So many amazing humans contributed to this book, writing about all kinds of 🌎🌍🌏 animals: rhinos, chimps, parrots, horses, rats, monkeys, bees, otters, mongoose, tigers, elephants, pigeons, bears and more! #animalhist
Katia and I on fieldwork in Finland this summer, checking golden eagles' nests, took selfie with a drone
Wrote a piece for Springs @carsoncenter.bsky.social Marmots, eagles, Finland, Canada, two wildlife biologists
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#envhist #envhum
#animalhist #histsci
#goldeneagles
#vancouverisland
A great read on the grey parrots by Nancy Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social 🦜
#envhist #envhum #animalhist
I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️
Inside Goodall’s cabin at Gombe. Piles of books, skulls of apes and other animals, empty wine bottles and candles.
One of Goodall’s bookshelves, with a stuffed baboon toy.
Old chimp feeding station at Gombe.
Besides the chimps, the material legacy of her research there was especially memorable for me. Her cabin (and all the books, skulls, and objects collected by her and others over the years), her son “grub”’s house that kept him safe from the baboons, the old feeding station. #animalhist
Call for papers: "Animals on the Move: Towards a Multispecies Understanding of Mobilities." Deadline: 30 September.
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#envhist #envhum #animalhist
Check out Benjamin Prostine's review of Alan Marshall's "Sheeplands: How Sheep Shaped Wales and the World," published in 2024 by @calonbooks.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #aghist #envhum #animalhist 🐏
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A new #animalhist article by @monicavasile.bsky.social takes on the history of takhi reintroductions. It's a fascinating read and incredibly moving (pun, I suppose, intended). In the open-access #envhum journal, so it's free to read!
I had never heard of Tom Lehrer (or at least don’t recall I had) so with all the posts about him, I decided to look up his work.
He has an AMAZING #envhist #animalhist song: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
Listen here (has the text too):
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Check out @johnmkinder.bsky.social's review of Andrea Ringer's "Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show," published in 2024 by @illinoispress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist
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Check out @catherinemcneur.bsky.social's review of@mike-stark.bsky.social's "Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird," published in 2025 @univnebpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #birds #animalhist
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Here's a 🦇 signal for all you undisciplined contingent scholars who study the past but aren't (according to your graduate training...) a historian. Want to talk about it for/with @contingent-mag.bsky.social? Follow the link!
#envhum #STS #HPS #animalhist
Sehr erfreut, das 8. Forum Tiere und Geschichte ankündigen zu dürfen! Bitte an alle ( potenziell) interessierten Personen weiterleite! #animalhist #envirohist #envihum www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
