Joan Waugh
Joan Waugh is professor of history at the University of California in Los Angeles. She is the author or coeditor of Wars within a War: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War , among other books.
Joan Waugh is professor of history at the University of California in Los Angeles. She is the author or coeditor of Wars within a War: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War , among other books. See less
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Joan Waugh book reviews
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Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
A New Edition Of A Civil War Classic
The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War is producing many new studies of the conflict together with reissues of earlier works. "Hearts Touched by Fire" belongs in the latter category. Although ... Read More
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U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth
Who Is Buried In Grant's Tomb?
Joan Waugh's thoughtful new book "U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth" (2009) uses this now-famous question to explore the changing nature over time of American attitudes towards Ulysses S. ... Read More