Susan Sessions Rugh

SUSAN SESSIONS RUGH is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University and author of Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture and Community in Nineteenth-Century Illinois. She is married to Tom Rugh, and they are the parents of three grown sons.

A Shaded View | Leonard J. Arrington and Susan Arrington Madsen, Sunbonnet Sisters: True Stories of Mormon Women and Frontier Life

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 2

Another “sisters” book—enough for a quartet. Where Mormon Sisters is a topical approach to pioneer women’s history, Sister Saints a compilation of biographical essays, and Women’s Voices a selection of diary excerpts with historical commentary,…

Lucy’s Own Voice | Lavina Fielding Anderson, ed., Lucy’s Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith’s Family Memoir

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 3

In the winter after the martyrdom of her sons, Joseph and Hyrum, Lucy Mack Smith dictated a history of her family to Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, a sympathetic schoolteacher in Nauvoo. Two copies were made…

Mind, Body, and the Boundary Waters

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

As I eased myself behind the wheel of my car in early spring 1994,1 was exhausted. I had been on campus all day teaching and consulting with students and had just finished teaching a three-hour…