The Official Home of the Animal Rights History website
Our Archive preserves and protects valued digital projects focusing on human conceptions and relationships with other animals throughout history and across cultures. We aim to ensure that our archived projects are preserved for the long-term, and adapted to evolving technologies. In keeping to the highest ethical standards, our projects are obtained with the consent of their creators or their estates. Content will continue to be available to the public free of charge.
If you have or know of a project that we should consider archiving, let us know here.
Projects
(works in progress)
Animal Rights History Website (2005 – 2015)
The Animal Rights History website is an online encyclopedia and archive of the history of animal ethics and advocacy from antiquity through the 1950s. The Animals & Culture Collective™ is honored that the creators of the Animal Rights History Website entrusted us to facilitate the only authorized restoration and expansion of this valuable resource.
“A wonderful resource for all of us interested in learning more about those who have spoken for the voiceless in the past.”
– Tom Regan, author of The Case for Animal Rights
Suicide Food (2006 – 2011)
Animals who desire to be eaten. “Suicide Food is a blog that explores the absurdities of meat culture by examining images of animals that appear to want to be eaten,” with over “a thousand images of animals delighted to be killed, and sometimes despoiled and tortured, for you.”
An important cultural resource for students, scholars, advocates, and the public regarding animals, food, propaganda, humor, and empathy. Visit the Wikipedia page.
The original blog is at https://suicidefood.blogspot.com/.
Nature in Legend and Story—NILAS (1989 – 2002)
What does it mean to be human? Perhaps only the animals can know. “Understanding relationships between human beings and the natural world, through the mediation of stories, poems, legends, images, and other cultural products.”
NILAS also promotes the use of stories in scholarship and pedagogy in exploring the changing relationships between human beings and other living things from the Paleolithic era to the twenty-first century.
Visit the site at its current location: https://www.h-net.org/~nilas/index.html
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