Dona Brown Author

Dona Brown is professor emerita of history at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Back to the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America and Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century, and editor of A Tourist’s New England: Travel Fiction, 1820–1920. She has contributed essays to The Routledge History of Rural America, New England: A Landscape History, The Encyclopedia of New England Culture, and Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory. She has consulted on numerous museum exhibits, and has held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, at the Winterthur Museum, and the Frances Hiatt Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society.