Andrew F. Lang
Professor
Andrew F. Lang is professor of history and constitutional studies in the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. A historian of the nineteenth-century United States, he specializes in the American Civil War era and American intellectual thought.
Lang’s current research focuses on Abraham Lincoln and the ancient virtue of gratitude. His work examines how Lincoln understood gratitude as essential to sustaining a free society, preserving constitutional institutions, and renewing the democratic order. Lang also serves on the executive council of the Society of Civil War Historians, is a vice president of the Abraham Lincoln Association, and sits on the advisory boards of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia and the American Civil War Museum. From 2014 to 2026, he taught American history at Mississippi State University.
Education
PhD, Rice University
Publications
A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era
In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America
