On our latest podcast, Brands- who’s written more than a dozen biographies and histories, two of which, The First American and Traitor to His Class, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize- breaks down those parallels and also detials the behind-the-scenes compromises that made Texas’ acceptance to the union possible. Plus, Brands explains the criteria we tend to use to reassess past presidencies and, yes, exactly when he believes we’ll have enough perspective to begin judging the Trump presidency.