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H.W. Brands
H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written more than a dozen biographies and histories, including The General vs. the President, a New York Times bestseller, and Our First Civil War, his most recent book. Two of his biographies, The First American and Traitor to His Class, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.


How Grief and Revenge Made Geronimo Into a Legendary War Chief

Before Geronimo Became the Apaches’ Fabled War Commander, He Lost Everything
November 8, 2022  By H.W. Brands
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The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution

H.W. Brands on America’s First Civil War
November 12, 2021  By H.W. Brands
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How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

H. W. Brands on the Early Life of an American Avenger
October 14, 2020  By H.W. Brands
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