| 词条 | Herbert H. Lang |
| 释义 |
| name = Herbert Howard Lang | image = | imagesize = | caption = | occupation = {{hlist|Historian|Professor}} | yearsactive = 1956–1984 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|8|16}} | birth_place = New York City, US | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|1|5|1921|8|16}} | death_place = Beaumont, Texas | resting_place =Prairie Lea Cemetery in Brenham, Texas | residence = | spouse = Elizabeth Brian Lang | children = 1 | alma_mater =University of Texas at Austin | religion= | footnotes= }} Herbert Howard Lang, known as Herb Lang (August 16, 1921 – January 5, 2006),[1] was an historian of the American West who spent nearly all of his academic career at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Lang was born in New York City to Edward and Estelle Lang. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, when he met his wife of fifty-eight years, the late Elizabeth Brian Lang. After the war, Lang earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees and in 1954 his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation topic was "Nineteenth Century Historians of the Gulf States".[2] Lang first taught at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico. This first assignment (1954–1956) proved fortuitous for Lang in that he became a scholar of the mining frontier of the Trans-Mississippi West. In 1956, Lang joined the TAMU history faculty. He was elevated to full professor in 1965. In his later academic years, Lang was a founder of the TAMU honors program and was the graduate-student history advisor[3] under department chairman Henry C. Dethloff. In 1970, Lang received an "Achievement Award" from the TAMU Association of Former Students. At the ceremony, Lang said that liberal arts instruction should "liberate man from the tyranny of out-moded man-made habits, assumptions, and institutions . . . [which] restrict the development of his highest potential."[3] The remark is similar to Thomas Jefferson's swearing to God "eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man".[4] Lang edited and wrote the introduction of the book, Pat Nixon of Texas: Autobiography of a Doctor, by Pat Ireland Nixon (1883–1965), no relation to the former First Lady of the United States.[5] Lang wrote the article "Fort Worth's Role in the Origins of the Helium Industry" in the Year Book of the West Texas Historical Association.[6] Lang wrote "Uranium Mining and the AEC: The Birth Pangs of a New Industry" in Business History Review.[7] One of Lang's understudies, Dan Louie Flores, acknowledges his debt to his mentor in his 2001 book, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. Flores writes that Lang "not only introduced me to environmental history but handed down to those of us who studied the West with him the legacy of Walter Prescott Webb."[8] On his retirement in 1984, TAMU named Lang a professor emeritus. He and his wife retired to Brenham, the seat of Washington County, Texas. He died at the age of eighty-four in Beaumont, the seat of Jefferson County.[3] {{Portal|New York City|History|Education|New Mexico|Texas|United States Navy|World War II}}References1. ^{{cite web|url= http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=November 18, 2009}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lang, Herbert H.}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/alumni/by-year/1950s.php |title=University of Texas: List of doctoral students starting from 1950s |publisher=utexas.edu |accessdate=December 6, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091222041321/http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/alumni/by-year/1950s.php |archivedate=December 22, 2009 |df= }} 3. ^1 2 Obituary of Herbert H. Lang, Beaumont Enterprise, Beaumont, Texas, January 7, 2006 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://nobeliefs.com/jefferson.htm|title="Thomas Jefferson on Christianity & Religion", compiled by Jim Walker|publisher=nobeliefs.com|accessdate=November 18, 2009}} 5. ^{{cite book |isbn=0-89096-072-0 |last=Nixon |first=Patrick Ireland |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |last2=Lang |first2=Herbert H. |year=1979 |location=College Station, TX |title=Pat Nixon of Texas: Autobiography of a Doctor}} 6. ^Herbert H. Lang, "Fort Worth’s Role in the Origins of the Helium Industry", Year Book of the West Texas Historical Association, Vol. 47, p. 127 7. ^{{cite journal |last=Lang |first=Herbert H. |title=Uranium Mining and the AEC: The Birth Pangs of a New Industry |journal=Business History Review |volume=36 |year=1962 |page=325 |doi=10.2307/3111400}} 8. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0nyEx7LjQAC&pg=PP17|title=Dan Louie Flores, The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001, p. i|publisher=Google Books|accessdate=June 26, 2010}} 14 : 1921 births|2006 deaths|20th-century American historians|Historians of the United States|Writers from New York City|People from College Station, Texas|People from Beaumont, Texas|University of Texas at Austin alumni|New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology faculty|Texas A&M University faculty|American naval personnel of World War II|United States Navy sailors|Burials in Texas|Historians from New York (state) |
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