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Joan Waugh
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] LifeWaugh 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
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