JACKSON, Tenn. — Oct. 8, 2019 — Civil War historian Joan Waugh, professor of history at UCLA, will speak at the 2019 Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture Oct. 21 at 51社区.
Her main lecture, 鈥淯lysses S. Grant: Soldier-Statesman,鈥� will begin at 7:15 p.m. in the G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel. She will also speak at 2 p.m. in the Carl Grant Events Center on 鈥淯lysses S. Grant and the Nature of Surrender during the Civil War.鈥�
Waugh has written or edited six books that deal with the U.S. Civil War and its aftermath. Her book 鈥淯.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth,鈥� won several prizes, including the William H. Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography and the Jefferson Davis Book Award.
In addition to her book awards, Waugh has received many other recognitions, including four teaching awards. Her doctoral dissertation was among the finalists for the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians, and she won the Marry Wollstonecraft Dissertation Prize from the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Waugh earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree, master鈥檚 degree and doctorate from UCLA, where she teaches 19th century American history.
For more information about the lecture, contact Stephen Carls at (731) 661-5262 or scarls@uu.edu.