Articles and Speeches Available for Download

"Advice Against Despair: Caring for the Whole ... and for Ourselves," Commencement Address, Northland College, May 27, 2006. To read, click here.

"Conservation and Patriotism: A Conversation with William Cronon," William Poole, Land and Life, Trust for Public Land, December 2006, available in pdf  html

"An Environmentalist on a Different Path: A Fresh View of the Supposed 'Wilderness' and even the Indians' Place in It".The New York Times. April 3, 1999. pg. B7 available in pdf

"Getting Ready to Do History," Carnegie Essays on the Doctorate, 2004, available in pdf.

"Kennecott Journey: The Paths out of Town," in Wiliam Cronon, George Miles, Jay Gitlin, eds., Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1992), 28-51. (pdf)

"Landscape and Home: Environmental Traditions in Wisconsin ," Wisconsin Magazine of History 74:2 (Winter, 1990-91), 83-105 available in pdf

"Only Connect...: The Goals of a Liberal Education". The American Scholar. 1998. 67(4), available in pdf

"A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative," Journal of American History 78:4 (March, 1992), p.1347-1376, available in pdf.

"The Riddle of the Apostle Islands: How Do You Manage a Wilderness Full of Human Stories". Orion. May/June, 2003. pp. 36-42 available in html pdf

"Saving the Land We Love: Land Conservation and American Values," Plenary Address to the Land Trust Alliance National Rally, Madison, Wisconsin, October 17, 2005. To read, click here.

"This Land is Your Land: Turning to Nature in a Time of Crisis". Audubon. January/February, 2002. pp. 1-4, available in pdf

"The Trouble with Wilderness, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature," in William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (W. W. Norton, 1995, 69-90), available here.

"The Uses of Environmental History" (Presidential Address, American Society for Environmental History), Environmental History Review, 17:3 (Fall 1993), p.1-22. (pdf)

"Why the Past Matters," Wisconsin Magazine of History, 84:1 (Autumn 2000), p.2-13. Awarded the William Best Hesseltine Award for the best article published in the Wisconsin Magazine of History in 2000-2001, available in pdf