# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/h-w-brands
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:11:47.264Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/h-w-brands"
name: "H. W. Brands"
slug: "h-w-brands"
description: "Henry William Brands Jr. is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize."
tagline: "American historian (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/H_w_brands_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.79
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.662002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._W._Brands"
    title: "H. W. Brands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D8%A8%D9%86%D9%87._%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA"
    title: "حبنه. دبليو الماركات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._W._Brands"
    title: "H. W. Brands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81"
    title: "Генрі Вільям Брандс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henricus_Gulielmus_Brands"
    title: "Henricus Gulielmus Brands"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Брандс, Генри Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q679533"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump