2010-2011 Seminars

Gordon S. Wood, Revolutionary Characters:  What Made the Founders So Different (Penguin, 2006)

Bad for Democracy:  How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People (U of Minnesota Press, 2008)

"The Trouble with Wilderness, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature," in William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (Norton, 1995), 69-90. Available here.
"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
"Caretaking Tales: Beyond Crisis and Salvation," in The Story Handbook: Language and Storytelling for Land Conservationists (San Francisco: Center for Land and People of the Trust for Public Land, 2002), 87-93, 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.
All downloads available at http://www.williamcronon.net/writing_downloads.htm

Robert Allison, A Short History of Boston (Commonwealth Editions, 2004)

David Lenson, On Drugs (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)

G. E. R. Lloyd, In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2004) 

Jerome P. Kassirer, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick; or Street Life in New York (1867); Mary Marshall Dyer, A Brief Statement of the Sufferings of Mary Dyer (1818); and other works TBA

Adrian Johns, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (University of Chicago Press, 2010)