Joan Waugh

Joan Waugh
OccupationHistory professor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Genrenon-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]

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

  1. ^ a b "Joan Waugh". UCLA. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  2. ^ "KL12 | University Press | Marquette University". www.marquette.edu. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Joan Waugh on Grant's and Lee's 'gentlemen's agreement' ending the Civil War". Los Angeles Times. 31 March 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  4. ^ Yardley, Jonathan (22 November 2009). "Jonathan Yardley reviews 'U.S. Grant' by Joan Waugh". ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  5. ^ Yockelson, Mitchell (10 July 2012). Grant: Savior of the Union. Thomas Nelson Inc. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-59555-453-6.
  6. ^ Frantz, Edward O. (24 March 2014). A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents 1865-1881. Wiley. p. 328. ISBN 978-1-118-60775-6.
  7. ^ McCurry, Stephanie (7 May 2012). Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. Harvard University Press. p. 433. ISBN 978-0-674-05665-7.


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