"Personal
Memoirs of U. S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause"
JOAN WAUGH
October 27, 7:30 PM
Joan Waugh is associate
professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles,
where she received her PhD in 1992. She has received several
awards for teaching and mentoring undergraduate students and research
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
Huntington Library, and the Gilder Lehrman Center. In addition
to her regular teaching, Prof. Waugh leads the "Gettysburg Summer"
program at UCLA, which sends undergraduates to Gettysburg, Washington,
and other Civil War sites every year.
She is the author of Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine
Shaw Lowell (1998) and editor of the volume on the Civil War and
Reconstruction in Facts on Files Encyclopedia of U.S. History
(2003). Prof. Waugh is co-editor of the forthcoming The
Memory of the Civil War in American Culture and is currently working
on two books: Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Cause and The War
for the Common Soldier, both of which will be published by the
University of North Carolina Press.
