Joan Waugh
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]
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
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
- ^ a b "Joan Waugh". UCLA. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
- ^ "KL12 | University Press | Marquette University". www.marquette.edu. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ "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.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ISBN 978-1-59555-453-6.
- ISBN 978-1-118-60775-6.
- ISBN 978-0-674-05665-7.
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Joan Waugh Smith Lecture in Civil War History, September 28, 2017
- IMDB entry
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