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Joan Waugh is an American historian and academic on the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in nineteenth-century American history, focusing on the Civil War, its aftermath, and the Gilded Age.
Joan Waugh graduated from UCLA, the same university where she later joined the faculty.
Joan Waugh has written U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth, Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell in 1998, The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture in 2004, and The American War: A History of the Civil War Era in 2015, the last one co-authored with Gary W. Gallagher.
Joan Waugh co-authored The American War: A History of the Civil War Era with historian Gary W. Gallagher, published in 2015.
Joan Waugh has written essays on Ulysses Grant and commented on him sympathetically, arguing in U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth that his reputation deserves reconsideration.
Joan Waugh has taken part in Civil War conferences at the Huntington Library, organized together with historian Gary W. Gallagher.