Nineteenth-Century American cities were full of non-human animal life: cows grazing open lots, pigs foraging gutters, horses by the thousands, cattle driven through busy streets, and stockyards intermixed with residential neighborhoods, to name only a few. In a matter of decades, the animal populations of American cities changed drastically. In this talk, Andrew Robichaud will discuss his book, Animal City: The Domestication of America, which explores these changing urban environments of animal life and death. Using a variety of sources and digital methods, Robichaud argues that changes in animal life and death are key to understanding nineteenth-century governance and the formation of modern American cities—and also a key moment in thinking about certain longer histories of human-animal relationships.