H. W. Brands

H.W. Brands on the early career of our first president.

Charles Sumner's example reminds us that "with enough courage and drive, can alter the trajectory of American racial history."

On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs.

Before Geronimo met any white Americans or came to think of them as enemies of the Apaches, he spent years fighting Mexicans.

Abortion and America’s new sectional divide.

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.