Joan Waugh is an American historian and academic on the faculty atUniversity of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in 19th-century American history and is an expert on theAmerican Civil War, the aftermath, and theGilded Age.^[1]

Waugh graduated from UCLA.^[2]

She has written books such asU.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), andThe American War: A History of the Civil War Era (2015), co-authored withGary W. Gallagher.^[1] Waugh has also written essays on Civil War topics, includingUlysses 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 theHuntington Library.^[7]

• Appearances onC-SPAN
• Joan Waugh Smith Lecture in Civil War History, September 28, 2017
• IMDB entry

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