Joan Waugh is an American historian and academic on the faculty at University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in 19th-century American history and is an expert on the American Civil War, the aftermath, and the Gilded Age.^[1]

Life

Waugh graduated from UCLA.^[2]

She has written books such as U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth,^[3][4] Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (1998), The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (2004), and The American War: A History of the Civil War Era (2015), co-authored with Gary W. Gallagher.^[1] Waugh has also written essays on Civil War topics, including Ulysses Grant,^[5] on whom she has commented sympathetically.^[6]

Waugh has given numerous lectures at universities, and along with Gallagher, she has been involved in conferences on the Civil War at the Huntington Library.^[7]

References

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Joan Waugh Smith Lecture in Civil War History, September 28, 2017
• IMDB entry

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