| Joan Waugh | |
| Occupation: | History professor |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Genre: | non-fiction, biography |
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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]
. Mitchell Yockelson . Grant: Savior of the Union. 10 July 2012. Thomas Nelson Inc. 978-1-59555-453-6. 191.