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.
“Runt.” An Epic Poem about an Epic Piddling Dog from the Miller Dog Food Company
“Some pictures of Etta’s pets…”: a real photo postcard
Stump’s New Stroller
Lombard’s Musical Cats
The Secret Life of Pets — in Victorian America
A Mysterious Hero Dog of Chicago, 1958: Your Help Needed!
Doghouses: Daily Life for Dogs in the Past
Posing for my Portrait is Such a Bore
The Pet Historian 