Author: kcgrier
I'm a historian who writes about the evolving relationships of people with animals. My blog, The Pet Historian, focuses on Americans' relationships with their pets from the eighteenth century to the present. I use material and visual culture to help tell this complicated and fascinating story.
Working with my graduate students at the University of Delaware, I also created a website called Disposable America, where we use digital journalism to explore the history of disposability and its material legacy.
A Portrait of Snoozer the Pug
Atlas Obscura Tackles the Origins of the Bone-Shaped Dog Biscuit
Fleas and Other Itches, Part III: The Comb-A-Flea Atomizer, 1950
We Will All Be at the Cat Show!
Comic Cats on Victorian Trade Cards
Dog repellents: suburban gardens, free-roaming dogs and Dogzoff
“The Intermission”: a playful dog in a real photo postcard, 1910
Dr. Hyde, Pet Vet, 1939
The Pet Historian 