~ He has written twenty-two books, coauthored or edited five others, and published dozens of articles and scores of reviews. In 2005 he returned to the University of Texas, where he is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and Professor of Government. In 1987 he joined the history faculty at Texas A&M University, where he taught for seventeen years. He worked as an oral historian at the University of Texas Law School for a year, then became a visiting professor of history at Vanderbilt University. Meanwhile he resumed his formal education, earning graduate degrees in mathematics and history, concluding with a doctorate in history from the University of Texas at Austin. For nine years he taught mathematics and history in high school and community college. His wanderlust diminished after several trips across the Great Basin, and he turned to sales of a different sort, namely teaching. After graduating he became a traveling salesman, with a territory that spanned the West from the Pacific to Colorado. He attended Stanford University and studied history and mathematics. He worked as an oral historian at the University of Texas Law S Henry William Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college. Henry William Brands was born in Portland, Oregon, where he lived until he went to California for college.

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