Joan Waugh is an American historian and academic on the faculty at

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...

. She specializes in 19th-century American history and is an expert on the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and t ...

, the aftermath, and the

Gilded Age In United States history, the Gilded Age was an era extending roughly from 1877 to 1900, which was sandwiched between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was a time of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern and Wes ...

Life

Waugh graduated from UCLA. She has written books such as ''U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth'', ''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. Waugh has also written essays on Civil War topics, including

Ulysses Grant Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822July 23, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Ar ...

, on whom she has commented critically. 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 The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927) and Arabella Huntington (c.1851–1924) in San Ma ...

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Joan Waugh
Smith Lecture in Civil War History, September 28, 2017
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21st-century American historians University of California, Los Angeles faculty Living people 21st-century American women writers American women historians Year of birth missing (living people) Historians from California {{US-historian-stub