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William Cronon
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William Cronon studies American environmental history and the history of the American West. His research seeks to understand the history of human interactions with the natural world: how we depend on the ecosystems around us to sustain our material lives, how we modify the landscapes in which we live and work, and how our ideas of nature shape our relationships with the world around us.

For UW-Madison's press release about Cronon's election as President of the American Historical Association, click here.

For Cronon's first presidential column for AHA Perspectives, on "The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age," click here.

For Cronon's latest presidential column for AHA Perspectives, on "Scholarly Authority in a Wikified World," click here.

 

To see the course page for History / Geography / Environmental Studies 460, click here.

To explore this site's primer on "Learning to Do Historical Research," click here.

For a gallery of images in the above slide show, click here.

For access to the website for the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), click here.

For CHE's website on the history of energy in the U.S., click here.

Visit the prize-winning Lakeshore Nature Preserve map and website.

For our website on the history of Gaylord Nelson and Earth Day, click here.

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense."

---Rumi, The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

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Page revision date: 02-Feb-2012