January 1, 2012
New Leader of History Association Has Already Felt Spotlight's Heat
William J. Cronon, who assumes the presidency of the American Historical Association at its annual meeting this week, has long been a prominent scholar in environmental history. He was thrust into the national spotlight last year when the Republican Party of Wisconsin used that state's open-records law to try to scour his e-mails. Its record request asked Mr. Cronon's employer, the University of Wisconsin at
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