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Norma Pierce is an editor and writer who plans to use this page as a test area for Wikipedia articles. The first article will be "John C. Waugh, Civil War historian." The second will be "Civil War Trails." Another possibility: John Coski.
John C(linton) Waugh, Civil War Historian
(Jack Waugh), Born Oct. 12, 1929, Biggs, California
Education: University of Arizona, BA 1951, with post-graduate work in history and political science at UCLA and St. Johns College.
Family: Resides in North Texas with his wife, Kathleen Dianne Lively, a social work administrator. Their children are Daniel Waugh, a lawyer in Providence, RI, and Eliza Waugh, a writer in Austin, Texas.
Waugh began professional writing as a journalist, then turned to media work for national politicians, and began authoring books about history in 1989. He is best-known for his first book, "The Class of 1846 — From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and their Brothers," which won the New York Civil War Round Table’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award for the best non-fiction book of 1994 and was a best-seller. He is author of two biographies of Abraham Lincoln and six other histories.
Waugh was employed 1956–1973 as a staff correspondent and bureau chief on The Christian Science Monitor. Honors included the American Bar Association’s 1972 Silver Gavel Award for the best national reporting for a series on American prisons.
He was a media specialist on the staff of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller 1973–1976 and press secretary to Democratic Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico 1983–1988.
His contributions to periodicals include articles in Civil War History, American Heritage, Civil War Times Illustrated, Columbiad, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald American, and Country Magazine.
He has been a consultant to organizations including the National Archives and Records Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Atlantic Richfield Company, President’s Council on Environmental Quality, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and West Virginia Public Radio. He has been a tour guide for HistoryAmerica TOURS.
References for Waugh: http://www.johncwaugh.com/ http://www.abanet.org/publiced/gavel/newsg1970s.pdf (American Bar Association, "Silver Gavel Award Winners – 1970s," p. 8 of 38 http://www.cwrtnyc.org/pratt.htm http://www.cwrtdallas.org/CWRT/speakerpage.shtml http://blackstoneaudio.com/search.cfm?search=john+C+Waugh http://www.harcourtbooks.com/booksearch/search_results.asp?sb=all&au=john+c+waugh&ft=all&ti=&bn=&lg=all&ct=all&im=all&se=all&pfy=all&pfm=all&pty=all&ptm=all&taw=all&pg=1&st=title&tp=advanced http://www.recordedbooks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=rb.show_auth&auth_id=10892 http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/enSearch/searchResults.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=Yes&N=0&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&D=john+c+waugh&Dx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&Ntk=S_Author&Ntt=john+c+waugh&x=5&y=12 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-9142235-2259056?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=john+c+waugh&x=0&y=0 http://www.tamu.edu/upress/MCWHINEY/mcgen.html http://www.historyamerica.com/
Bibliography:
One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln’s Road to Civil War. Synopsis: How Abraham Lincoln, a frontier lawyer and politician, fought his rival, Stephen A. Douglas, in Illinois over the Union-splitting issue of slavery and rose to the presidency. Harcourt, 2007. Cloth: ISBN 978-0-15-101071-4 . Unabridged recording at BlackstoneAudio.com.
The Class of 1846 — From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and their Brothers. Forward by James M. McPherson. Synopsis: The story of the men of the West Point class of 1846, the most distinguished of the antebellum years — as cadets at the academy, field officers in the Mexican and Indian Wars, and generals in the Civil War. Warner Books, 1994. Cloth ISBN 0-446-51594-9. Ballantine Books, 1999. Paper ISBN 0-345-43403-X. Unabridged recording at RecordedBooks.com.
Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency. Synopsis: The dramatic story of the most unique and one of the most important presidential elections in American history. Crown Publishers, 1997. Cloth ISBN 0-517-59766-7. DaCapo Press, 2001. Paper: ISBN 0-306-81022-0.
Surviving the Confederacy: Rebellion, Ruin, and Recovery — Roger and Sara Pryor During the Civil War. Synopsis: A prominent Confederate couple’s experiences in the Civil War. Harcourt, 2002. Cloth: ISBN 0-15-100389-0.
On the Brink of Civil War: The Compromise of 1850 and How It Changed the Course of American History How civil war was averted in 1850 when a compromise over slavery in the territories was hammered out in a contentious fight on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Scholarly Resources, 2003. Cloth: ISBN 0-8420-2944-3. Paper: 0-8420-2945-1.
20 Good Reasons to Study the Civil War. Forward by Jim Lehrer. Synopsis: Twenty short essays on why the Civil War is important and warrants the study and attention of every American. McWhiney Foundation Press, 2004. Paper: ISBN 1-893114-46-5.
Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians. Synopsis: The story of how a paleface West Pointer commanded the Confederate Indians in the last year of the Civil War. McWhiney Foundation Press, 1995. Paper: ISBN 1-886661-03-0.
Last Stand at Mobile. Synopsis: The story of the Union Navy under Admiral David Farragut ran past the blazing guns of Fort Morgan into Mobile Bay in August 1864 and how six months later the city fell to the Union army. McWhiney Foundation Press, 2001. Cloth: ISBN 1-893114-09-0. Paper: 1-893114-08-2.
Edwin Cole Bearss: History’s Pied Piper. Synopsis: Biography of the colorful, celebrated American historian and Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service. Published by HistoryAmerica TOURS, 2003. Paper: ISBN 0-9729827-0-1.
Awards: New York Civil War Round Table Fletcher Pratt Award for the best book of nonfiction on the Civil War published in 1994.
Daughters of the American Revolution History Award Medal, in recognition of contributions that significantly advance the understanding of our nation's past through the study and promotion of an aspect of American history – 1998.
Grady McWhiney Award of Merit for significant contributions to the scholarship and preservation of Civil War History – 2000.
