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One Of The Nation's Top Historians Decides It's Time To Embrace Wikipedia

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By Rebecca J. Rosen The world of academic scholarship — particularly the field of history — has at times had a strained relationship with the massive collaborative project that is Wikipedia. In 2007, for example, the history department at Middlebury …
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Historian William Cronon's Wikipedia biography contains the following lavishly-written paragraph, entirely unsourced:
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In his essay, "The Trouble with Wilderness", published in the New York Times, and in Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (1995), Cronon traced the idea of wilderness throughout American history. Cronon argues that this history allows us to see how fantasies of untouched, pristine wilderness, are only fantasies. Even wilderness is indelibly shaped by human history and labor, and we mislead ourselves when we conceive of wilderness otherwise (as many environmentalists did). Cronon does not argue that we should therefore dispense with wilderness or fail to protect it. The trouble with our fantasy of untouched wilderness is that it distracts us from the nature everywhere about us by fixating instead on the allegedly untouched nature out there, in the wild. The task Cronon gives us is to form a responsible relationship with both the nature of the wilderness, where we play, and the nature where we live and work.


With such generous PR puffery, it's no doubt why Cronon likes Wikipedia -- it's good for marketing!

I wonder if Jon Awbrey's head is exploding, because Cronon was Awbrey's hero in the anti-ALEC wars, and now Cronon is fully on board with WikiLove.

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