Author: E. David Cronon
Born: 1924
Died: 5 December 2006
Bio: Edmund David Cronon was an influential and revered former dean of the College of Letters and Sciences and history professor for more than four decades at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Cronon served on the Board of Curators for the Wisconsin State Historical Society from 1964-90, and served as its president from 1970-73. He was one of the first eight American professors involved in a Fulbright teaching exchange in 1972 between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. Later, in 1988, he would lead negotiations on a formal UW–Madison exchange agreement with Moscow State University.

He authored numerous books and articles on twentieth-century American political history. One of his most influential books, *Black Moses*, chronicled the history of prominent Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey and his leadership of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Other books by Cronon include *Josephus Daniels in Mexico* (1960) and *The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson* (1965).

Source: [University of Wisconsin-Madison](https://news.wisc.edu/historian-influential-campus-leader-e-david-cronon-dies-at-age-82/)