Andrew Lang - "Whither 'Gratitude To Our Fathers?' Abraham Lincoln And The American Union"

Andrew Lang, is an Associate Professor at Mississippi State University, where he has emerged as one of the leading young scholars of the Civil War period. His first book, In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America, won the 2018 Tom Watson Book Award for the “best book published on the causes, conduct, and effects, broadly defined, of the Civil War.” The prize committee described the book as “one of the very best examples of social-cultural history of the army to be done for the Civil War.” His 2021 book, A Contest of Civilizations: Exploring the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era, was one of seven finalists out of 90 books submitted for the prestigious Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. He serves on the Executive Council of the Society of Civil War Historians. In addition to his distinguished work as a scholar, he has won four Faculty Teaching Awards at Mississippi State. He received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 2013.