Videos

Historian H.W. Brands looked at Gerald Ford in the context of the 1970s - when he served as House minority leader, vice president, and then president. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum …

Historian H.W. Brands talked about humor in the White House and the role it plays in presidential politics. From George Washington to Donald Trump, he considered how funny American chief exe…

University of Texas at Austin history professor H.W. Brands (Our First Civil War), Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello public relations and community engagement officer Gayle Jessup White (Reclama…

Historian H.W. Brands explored the conflicts between colonists during the American Revolution. This virtual program was part of the 2021 Miami Book Fair.

Chase Untermeyer, author of When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration, and Jonathan Darman, author of Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America, …

Historian H.W. Brands profiled Aaron Burr, the former vice president to Thomas Jefferson. Aaron Burr is most remembered for killing former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel on …

Historian H.W. Brands provided a dual biography of abolitionist John Brown and Abraham Lincoln. This was a virtual event hosted by the Atlanta History Center.

Author H.W. Brands discussed 19th century political figures Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster. He explained why the three statesmen were critical to American politics between th…

H.W. Brands, Jack S. Blanton Sr. chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin, talked about his book, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West , in which he provided a hi…

Historian H.W. Brands took viewer phone calls on his book, Heirs of the Founders, at the 11th annual Tucson Festival of Books.

Authors H.W. Brands, Heirs of the Founders, Stephen Fried, Appetite for America; and Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth; discussed their respective history books. This event was part of the 1…

Historian H.W. Brands recounted the American entry into World War II. He spoke at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival in California.

A discussion on U.S. presidential elections from the 2018 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival in California, which featured Karl Rove and historians H.W. Brands and Douglas Brinkley.

Historians and journalists compared President Trump’s first year in office to his predecessors and talked about the future of the presidency. The discussion took place at the annual Texas Tr…

Historians discussed President Harry Truman’s leadership and how he interacted with three prominent Texas politicians, John Nance Garner, Sam Rayburn, and Lyndon B. Johnson. To celebrate…

H.W. Brands talked about his book The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War, in which he examines the contentious relationship between President Harry T…

H.W. Brands, author of Reagan: The Life and Thomas Mallon, author of Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years, talked about their books on Ronald Reagan. “Reagan: A Life in Fact and Fiction” t…

Former presidential aides discussed the roles of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War era. They were joined by historian to explore the foreign policy of each p…

H.W. Brands talked about his book, Reagan: The Life. He spoke in the C-SPAN 2/BookTV tent at the 20th annual Texas Book Festival. The festival was held from October 17-18, 2015, at the St…

H.W. Brands talked about his book Reagan: A Life, in which he recounts the life and political career of America’s 40th president.