Current Highlights
The Making of the American Landscape
This course, Geography / History / Environmental Studies 469, explores how the American landscape has evolved through both natural and human transformations.
Course website
American Environmental History
I have offered my survey course on American Environmental History for over 20 years. It is currently listed as History / Geography / Environmental Studies 460.
Course website
The Center for Culture, History, and Environment
CHE is a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty and graduate students who are broadly interested in the changing relationships of humans and the natural world in the broad sweep of history.
Center website
AHA Presidential Writings and Columns
Material from Cronon's American Historical Association presidential year, including the text, video, and audio of his presidential address on "Storytelling," Richard White's bio, and Cronon's complete presidential columns on "The Public Practice of History in and for a Digital Age."
Go to page
Forest Hill Cemetery
The CHE Methods Seminar built a cool new web-based field guide to Forest Hill Cemetery, a canonical 19th-century Romantic landscape in Madison.
Project site
Conversations With History Interview
In April 2013, Cronon did an hour-long video interview with Harry Kreisler of UC-Berkeley for the "Conversations with History" series.
Watch the video