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Susan Sessions Rugh specializes in the history of travel and tourism and in the history of rural America. She earned a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Chicago in 1993, and has taught at BYU since 1997. She currently serves as Associate Dean in the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences at BYU. She teaches courses in nineteenth century America and on the history of travel. Rugh has written two books, Our Common Country (2001) and Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations (May 2008). Her article on Utah’s promotion of tourism, “Branding Utah: Industrial Tourism in the Postwar America West,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2006) won the Michael Malone Award from the Western Historical Association and a Best Article Award from the Utah Historical Society. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/whq/37.4/rugh.html |
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Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations (University Press of Kansas, 2008). Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest (Indiana University Press, 2001). |
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