Susan S. Rugh

Books: (click on the links to read reviews and excerpts)

	Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Relations (University of Kansas Press, 2008).
Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest (Indiana University Press, 2001). .

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Field: American History

Contact Info:

susan_rugh@byu.edu
2133 JFSB
(801) 422-2742
Fax: (801) 422-0275

 

Current Classes:

• History 220 U.S. Through 1877
• History 490 Tourism and Travel in America

Classes Taught:

• History 220. U.S. Through 1877
• History 369. Travel and Tourism in America
• History 372. U.S. History from 1815-1848
• History 373. Civil War Era, 1848-1877
• History 490. Tourism and Travel in America
• History 652. Sources and Problems in Nineteenth-Century America

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 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 Relations (University of Kansas Press, 2008).

Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest (Indiana University Press, 2001).

"Civilizing the Countryside: Class, Gender and Crime in Nineteenth Century Rural Illinois," Agricultural History 76 No. 1 (Winter 2002): 58-81.

"Awful Calamities Now Upon Us": The Civil War in Fountain Green, Illinois,"Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 93 No. 1 (Spring 2000): 9-42.

"Conflict in the Countryside: The Mormon Settlement at Macedonia, Illinois," Brigham Young University Studies 32 (Winter and Spring 1992): 149-74.

"Creating a Farm Community: Fountain Green Township, 1825-1840," Western Illinois Regional Studies 13 (Fall 1990): 5-20.