April 19, 2008, 1:00 p.m. Tarble Arts Center
Dr. Susan Sessions Rugh is an Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Her presentation, entitled “Pilgrimage: Heritage Travel in Cold War America,” will include a discussion about travel to Lincoln sites and will be part of the exhibit opening on April 19, 2008. Dr. 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. She 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.
Read about her upcoming book entitled Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations at: http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/rugare.html.
Read about the previous book she authored, Our Common Country: Family, Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth Century Midwest, at http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=20013.
