Space, Time, and Storytelling in the Making of an American Place
Speaker:
William Cronon
05 Oct 2006
8:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
William Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England and Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West; and edited Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past; and Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature.Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities series on Places, Peoples, and Spatial Practices.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.