Joan Waugh | |
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Occupation | History professor |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
Genre | non-fiction, biography |
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]
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]