She teaches the America Civil War era in both undergraduate lecture courses and seminars. She offers a summer class in which she takes a small group of UCLA students to Gettysburg National Military Park and other selected sites to study the war. She was awarded the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005. She is the author of Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell and The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. She has appeared in numerous documentaries, including the PBS series, “American Experience” on Ulysses S. Grant. Ms. Waugh advised on Unit 9, The New Nation and Unit 10, Reconstructing a Nation.