New! The first Animal History textbook, by Susan Nance

Dr. Susan Nance has published the first history source reader / textbook for the history of animals in the United States: 

Animals in Nineteenth-Century America: A History in Documents (Broadview Press, 2026).

Animals in Nineteenth-Century America examines animal life and human-animal relationships in a pivotal century in American and world history. Spanning the “long nineteenth century” (1770s–1910s), this collection of primary sources and images traces how the United States was transformed in this period from a mosaic of Indigenous multispecies homelands into a managed landscape of industry, settlement, and control.

Each source is accompanied by a detailed contextual headnote and helpful annotations, and Susan Nance’s introductory essay charts the arc of animal history as various species confronted anthropogenic environmental change and human politics. The volume will be a valuable resource for those studying animal history, environmental history, or American history.

Previously, Dr. Nance published another in the Sources series for Broadview Press - Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents (2021)