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.
Doggie Glamour of the 1950s and 1960s
Milk for the Barn Cat: From Producer to Consumer Direct
Sewing with the Cat at Home
“Three things that every home should have as pets…” The Henry Field Company, 1934
Meet Wrinkles Vaughn — Happy National Dogs Day!
Dog Muzzles and City Dogs, 1900
A Ladder Full of Cats, 1907
The New York Veterinary Hospital, 1900: An Early Small-Animal Practice
The Pet Historian 