Joan Waugh's guest appearances

Joan Waugh

Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa

Turning Points in the Civil War

[Abridged] Presidential Histories

Barack Obama

John Adams

Sam Houston

James Buchanan

Frederick Douglass

Grover Cleveland

James Madison

Joseph Aldy

Ron White

John Milton

Woodrow Wilson

Theodore Roosevelt

Laura Brown

Edwidge Danticat

Teddy Roosevelt

OwlTail

Joan Waugh Debunks

The UCLA scholar tries to understand the past on its own terms, while interrogating how we memorialize it. She speaks with Fred about the memory wars that have outlived the Civil War, the politics of Reconstruction that gave us Confederate monuments, and what we can learn from Gettysburg by visiting the place. 

The UCLA scholar tries to understand the past on its own terms, while interrogating how we memorialize it. She speaks with Fred about the memory wars that have outlived the Civil War, the politics of Reconstruction that gave us Confederate monuments, and what we can learn from Gettysburg by visiting the place.

Professor Joan Waugh Debunks the “Easy Stereotypes of History”

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant's reputation has been through a lot. While he was still alive, he was very nearly our first three-term president; after he died, the Myth of the Lost Cause repainted him as a drunk and corrupt butcher; in the past 30 years, he's started to become a Civil Rights Icon as historians gave him a long overdue second look. Join me as I interview to Joan Waugh, UCLA professor of 19th-century America who specializes in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age, and the author of U.S. Grant, American Hero, American Myth on why Grant's reputation has changed so much, and what's still misunderstood about our 18th president.Support the show

Ulysses S. Grant's reputation has been through a lot. While he was still alive, he was very nearly our first three-term president; after he died, the Myth of the Lost Cause repainted him as a drunk and corrupt butcher; in the past 30 years, he's started to become a Civil Rights Icon as historians gave him a long overdue second look. Join me as I interview to <a href="https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/joan-waugh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joan Waugh</a>, UCLA professor of 19th-century America who specializes in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age, and the author of <a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469609904/u-s-grant/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">U.S. Grant, American Hero, American Myth</a> on why Grant's reputation has changed so much, and what's still misunderstood about our 18th president. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/AbridgedPresidentialHistories" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>

18.B.) The evolving myth and reputation of Ulysses S. Grant, an interview with Joan Waugh

Gary Gallagher

Gary Gallagher, professor of History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, and Joan Waugh, professor of history at UCLA, present opening remarks for the "Turning Points in the Civil War" conference.

Turning Points in the Civil War: Opening Remarks with Gary Gallagher and Joan Waugh