Henry Brands

H. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at The University of Texas at Austin. He writes on American history and politics, with books including American Patriarch, Founding Partisans and The Man Who Saved the Union. Several of his books have been bestsellers; two, Traitor to His Class and The First American, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He publishes “A User’s Guide to History” at hwbrands.substack.com.