Smith Lecture in Civil War History: Joan Waugh

Prize-winning Civil War author Joan Waugh, Ph.D., professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, discusses "U.S. Grant: Soldier and Statesman." Waugh is the author or editor of books including “The American War: A History of the Civil War Era,” “The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture,” “Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause,” and “Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell.” Her presentation is Ohio Wesleyan’s 2017 Richard W. Smith Lecture in Civil War History sponsored by the Department of History. Admission is free. Learn more about the annual Smith Lecture at www.owu.edu/history.